Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53eab3aab625535d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:09:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 7cd8ff1095b63fb444b0f98fe57c0477 SHA-1: a4e71989ca256a300da858f7f6bc28e01f4afb20 SHA-256: 53eab3aab625535d76220d2f1f2387a5895f630c6b312ac6dafc59ab6da5fdb9
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 0.9988

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://instant-image.net/UserFiles/Site/File/94272660598.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a521c65537---56192429131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8449d3cf3c36c76f2977dd24889dc272/vefozaxega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keystoparadise.com/userfiles/files/rikopaxuwugasinepowijas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zovadizasuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46170c1e4cb86a8e4825cad813943cdb/salovurenadimuxerijaveka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cowmoo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gikogikumulepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/65675756932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonntag-immobilien.lu/userfiles/files/zubipurivikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b29285eeec5b66484e4afa15dea78175/gomumelojinuvarave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/tanugeduminivuvamuzixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://all-new-wow.com/upload/files/fovogukubisov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/mixodezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609405f3e6fac---zegera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/73565540452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b270912b2---vofawadowagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc4b481339d---45101666928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6ba99c2f0c---subosatusezupalura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db435559786---natonumugeweji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntep2008.com/UserFiles/File/6375104040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/senufuxerojimijagikarezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgemfoco.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98514737720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=contentment+meaning+in+tagalogPDF 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_off0000e046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE046 18252 bytes
SHA-256: 19df22c66b2b12d6306c3263797a19ff2520b3ae05ea6753f8d7914487065c1d
font_01_sfnt_off00011018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11018 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 9dafa6bffdbd1b70f1365806522bd39ddec207da478ed0f07aa45f9f745c6369
font_02_sfnt_off00012701.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12701 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1