Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5218cda5ec3e728c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:07:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 502a55a604a9bc48729d2bc53b1b4481 SHA-1: 59d322a628bb4100f6582db2676f4fde5cb82b2b SHA-256: 5218cda5ec3e728cc194f18ced595f1f842cc234f94874e1d8737189e066212b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1420ab2f442eaff56ed1531959326ea5/votolojutevejupesitujapu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ee80cef50---83700473964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/17877791692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086049a7c9ca---pizorojozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/zonepivusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085200ea1fdf---95053485117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/dupazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e77ad60cbd---93900858523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0bc50497b---vulakuretajamiwavelodasas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/85245266288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/puvusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4861e79cd55fc94c3ddf2ea512efb2cd/fifidinotesafopaluvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607daffceba92---19527488975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5fb239a7e1---pexibelowulagaxusuledomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukewittfarms.com/userfiles/file/rozufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/50508785351624815282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qh32s79q96q39k1pub4sc005o8/fevokedogupojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/73319826718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.comuserfiles/file/zalikinuresotufudavawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vintageguitar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruzuxate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbb1ma1hvu1vge4sv0n0s3om09/46267753478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/fokepewozejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=last+year+question+paper+accounts+class+12PDF 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_off0000e419.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE419 17328 bytes
SHA-256: c462a1712db7c1142ffe721d661591e82a26fc7fad025841d7660841be88f605
font_01_sfnt_off00011188.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11188 10856 bytes
SHA-256: f92b84b2a6d899175deb0b3a0460228f0980824ccf4f8d0ea0c50f47eed4c1b9
font_02_sfnt_off00012adf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ADF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1