Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54216c467cdafe65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-08-24 06:58:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 04afc62322b052b483d761a49998c903 SHA-1: 7a2671a1ede9074e114ebfaedce253e63afdc6c3 SHA-256: 54216c467cdafe6559f3698b86449926a8330807553c59cb8077ea23a0e92442
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 0.9991

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://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba11c26f7b---90570555458.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b45e0782eab3ac5b426b82d2450aaaf/59906716340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60427353835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtlebanon62.com/clients/5/5e/5ee551a8be14a26d7d76bc5e90dd1372/File/59479867470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4c2ad1632---24022828195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/160e86ed7519f3240b5a5a205dcdb9b3/20632654209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/parox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60da4639c70f520efb654c2cc051cf4f/89478114603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083cd789bf0b---24649883674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ldh7q038d60farjf0fn26dsm48/97908900349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081040ee1dd1---temabisipejabukavidija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d79bebb8f---sawerorajekefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ranajisonituxubefipefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aead85b51e8---kegepetezazotimuxidixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradefze.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32832039305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/lupalunupelebukejuforutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://storemisr.com/uploads/files/rukinuvozuxafige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073eff9b4407---dofezalejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784313575ac---xewimolemolasexabalot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab57ea90558---fedufusuburexuwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplehelppeople.net/uploads/File/xofemefogobog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotamsui.com/ck_imgs/files/36535119391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toshiba-center.ru/uploads/files/jetuvera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+grow+snapchat+score+fastPDF 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_off0000da9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA9D 16648 bytes
SHA-256: 601d5eddc360f3f1e8bad3515bfbe75b3c9a8e318bf149c6226c41a630f2e51d
font_01_sfnt_off000105e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E8 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 4e418dc278c33a6f793b5678f8ebcad921921be0f19faa6bb0d33f8d2e943665
font_02_sfnt_off00011e7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1