Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53b7e5eb99547e91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-06-21 06:14:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 71d53f04d65ce8db54861a056764dcc9 SHA-1: b8928818a789519aad9ba414d900b30d41b601b3 SHA-256: 53b7e5eb99547e91785d5272ec0adc2ab6f8e5b8892c91ac3478d587957170ea
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 0.9996

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 http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/mowegixirafetigizuxir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb9a132fe0---33212655234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f2dpk1jqgp28auc0sk4489uk2/97434104833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eefa8de2b864431d85e1d89309ead68/minesavipenup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/249c49445f3b77f15a1443c83b3d23d0/76341705879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/071bfaaa6e060a1074e14356407e9a47/5544297623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca87def4d0---39218253837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2c4a61d02dd39996d132db0f7d4a63b/37393053938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5p1721jlu7h90h4c707pj8fkpo/lusewutemuguzunolev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090096c6efce---20837819466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160996007d529d---tomuzisufefevorefizin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bauu8mpgbghighu8qfrn26tdp4/78657524683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/up6uevo6s6pkj6vlsskg1f9l2s/10730833372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/40942132423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://timjanen.se/anvandarbilder/53/files/gopukoxazaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8a01882d6794747c510198e6a3ecdb2/19626166112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b66e413fb303da8f5c86d49aa830beed/wokata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/mafatuguwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e2ece0e1c---temoworixovexuroneduza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=rezo+new+map+terrariaPDF 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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_off0000d707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD707 6512 bytes
SHA-256: f2e107f92bb8bd3d965229f4a65b4b4a26526b71c37fd0d26edba28d6f062bd4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE751 4904 bytes
SHA-256: d61add5fd94e953ba2d70eb1f4c39a57612584cd4feb9a6fb10205c27b4ae0d3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7FC 2592 bytes
SHA-256: a5eea40f2c4fa1bc350bf297386f3ad9dd67402227edaf418003a7a036e40fca
font_03_sfnt_off00010380.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10380 11936 bytes
SHA-256: ecfec4a1f82f28a3ab8b933a99e60c2ba5721c67ba14f6b6f4d6302c0b3b299a
font_04_sfnt_off00012c88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C88 16212 bytes
SHA-256: 697c2def67ca018959b441aeac194f5af81831b7356d9eba4b64b465986b1279