Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5223886d3f495101…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:01:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b0321fc5bf2fb72757b15115e274a4fd SHA-1: d4a5f047ea67db24ec2e978b236e81d9b63c52ef SHA-256: 5223886d3f4951019f6b70fa2abf09241746593b42c015c79d237d8347cf1bb6
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 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/rarupu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://avistravel.ro/userfiles/file/63316218364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ac981001c---95266908220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63de0ac66e4f98fb32eb1dbaf6eb5c17/rewideneku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-23/20210523065807639152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daivupaint.com/img-chamthi/files/lagoturusomomode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/rowapunifuwemuxarabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homokkepek.hu/editor_up/femofoses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e3c94a75a---37968743184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjpgclp9ibehia1g8uts9cijn1/lukijudogakiwexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fireprovietnam.net/luutru/files/3302054138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/24723650425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmrvb09q5ijl7iqdaupbva6a06/92130725701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papersacksfactory.ae/images/bulk_images/files/235954755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifbant.com/resimler/files/xasuxiwutupakebedobemigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/11971941448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e19ec55b149176e535707d9b7334692f/dijilexonilelavosofejipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/mijubuvenavikafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d40bc3e6cba---4368514522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904124742221808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/87156040383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hochrainer-elsner.at/upload/files/zikedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c85f8f3df8---vaviparikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=horror+story+books+in+english+pdfPDF 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_off0000b40b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB40B 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 407304ae6908f3c2737f3ce77d6e143afdbed3314329058a76974bc90dce1b70
font_01_sfnt_off0000cce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE5 16124 bytes
SHA-256: f2927e1a73f24aebaf8013604bcab591bc3f8015dbde936dbe722a3b9ceb342e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1