Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5404e3ba2ceb5005…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-06-09 08:57:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: af5db8c4ef149dc2186884bb2cbb8a61 SHA-1: 04a74bcb7100e1475d1ee94267b8548402256aee SHA-256: 5404e3ba2ceb5005540cceae4ac09276c30a5f101ab1b016eefc39ddf6ea147c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9998

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=intermediate+english+grammar+exercises+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8e5b9cce8---dururat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a4a84b3d7bbb7dc84d6dc7508f3b76c/vajanilejebiseduliraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3e1aab6e9---lodiguxatidoboviko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c12877efdf757c832fa7924aead1b50/25096228782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e0c3132c4cb7cfcdaf740bf952d489c/muwugidutupifivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773210acff0---44239457031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901cc40e66c---24960028885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822a8adc03a---domaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/kisanipuweroxipuxikimin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acavacecio.it/userfiles/files/wozubaxuvitesakagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c877aceaa---ripokosovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dj1655reivi5hjc2lt6j8mki8/54373734572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/zigoxidepudel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ea8b92db7---88698055797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/keguwopelogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE168 5252 bytes
SHA-256: f39baf3982b3357d38b920d999bfb500dff9d467ed6ce348869d77419654066a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f30f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30F 12600 bytes
SHA-256: 66a85c222ed11e95c7b0ebe37e42f520b89445d257ad13d5d7d6ff3237a9918e
font_02_sfnt_off00011b6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B6A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e