Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5307c1810a51d5c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-17 04:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: e91a41d937d5623e5e4671ed7a24a16f SHA-1: a0662157a0ffbee53ff2edf8af6cd5eb60441bdb SHA-256: 5307c1810a51d5c3a6b239bec8d511c36684fc4502eedb47c523264c88938286
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 0.9995

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=parallel+space+64bit+mod PDF link annotation
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-13/20210513131520625852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bbd126e76---61129184389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/pekozofixokajobawewemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6277e0d6cd59e5f5d322df00a1903dc0/zefovefodutaluvinom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/52288791726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b44b4669c66---85267560659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/73294390959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/73424161524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860af433a6a---wozaxeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c7e1a7d1b63fd865ffc3edfa13cedd2/meniwikeseliwowedubazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b103bf5bb19cd9160610565364429ea/tuvemimorowuwozilodipozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/jasutatuwivalik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ac872256217c0f3161f515f9e29c42f/goroparuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/32101619781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c65784a08aa---nefuwuwijaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41e9d8aa5e685693daa1eb0fded0645d/wuvadubariwene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kt1u8h98p9tkmgh4mhgh91f466/nuwodudotojujuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED49 2856 bytes
SHA-256: 30505cf77ba8a3f6a71ba56c2bc124282218affb14726b01dc63d1ce4df229fd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF772 5600 bytes
SHA-256: 7a4db18677b38d1191a7926ed5a7af6d9e4d5370d55e11699fd342fb3b99327f
font_02_sfnt_off00010a59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A59 1800 bytes
SHA-256: e9a5a1f6ed95b1e3669933bb00002ad32a1708c3e0b735191cad5e02368a6c7d
font_03_sfnt_off000112e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E7 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 6864013de22e44d8fc557c3298b97b071f8f198d46b192b8262fe867c54759d6
font_04_sfnt_off0001383e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1383E 16136 bytes
SHA-256: 84104170df5398e43001d314eff03f449fcca15f87a71b12300aef8e2695b0ef