Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e5ca88db31e0c5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-08-15 22:33:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: ba3854a3dfbfe3ecaf86246903cab345 SHA-1: 4f3226296e7b616a5d20dd2ec3a202002ff86d35 SHA-256: 4e5ca88db31e0c5cd6fe6991dd174023814b17b529e14db804ac08f2b26a7508
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://istvietnam.com/rich_editor/file/6401964565.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ecfaf1aa7---wosegogelap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47bb96266b---gejuxigawulimumilomigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c38e10e095c87abb7a16060b6e79b3cc/papajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13632240889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9d7f62257---difoxutotugavidowoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39098611866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dt5f7l3if2rkh8vlgn4ghcgr4r/nitowadeladotolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88e154ab31---46165741638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e9bd1aec6---56643002734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geostudio.eu/userfiles/files/pidomakobetano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0667e02bc3---67102310903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dqt3aga1hl8gvoa82enb9b1cc0/gevukixunotafivuvelat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/jasivusati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6322664e83e4523a878a7977d5a0a56/getovekenowewivetirolabof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/16952984887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/wezilotogemari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/79577242090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregor-biffiger.ch/userfiles/file/xikopabalomuzigaxasuwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramhuonghanoi.vn/upload/files/45913255492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khambenhxahoi115.com/images/files/90416448531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtcguild.org/clients/80367/File/5425106906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qkon.ca/images/file/74865632255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=elvis+blue+hawaii+aloha+shirtPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE20 17196 bytes
SHA-256: 41bbf9fb1803250c4e5fe8d0f7ec29441a34ff90f7b660816933600949914bc0
font_01_sfnt_off00011ae2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AE2 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 3610fde97ea1dc641bb7c581bd27602c491bc8436802d37e3937211db9fb8dc4
font_02_sfnt_off000132e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1