Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 542b1883e05527fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-10-12 19:47:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 478c90737559ea59d820a9585ae3b854 SHA-1: 73acad58ffc1fa39db1ca4eae74f1ef9e57d2b91 SHA-256: 542b1883e05527feab75a17229171ceaa64b0c3c8883131983608daf7ae87f20
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, likely intended to trick users into downloading malicious files, as suggested by the 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://lpxs168.com/filespath/files/20210917191135.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/kesabafupivorawarurajamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614aef28eaea2---wiludireterib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anne-berger.de/sites/anne-berger.de/files/fkcfile/parosavokemesupusire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slotsonline.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zibobixiratoguvuwuberiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglenhospital.com/UserFiles/File/75778953629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aynispirit.nl/userfiles/file/lezaxonuful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikincielinmak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/ditoreg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamnitikamini.si/upload/files/lilifurevugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glamweddingdesign.com/userfiles/file/54036316164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16160ebced4e9e---53499975724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/32585800867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://take114.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_BFD1EC26B5675527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23397324124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/nuvupokapukumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aparcaderoshaddaichile.cl/uploads/images/files/pavagakepetofob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bt07acf77ub7iu6nf2ihsru35v/85165302771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150002.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210916165132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/ruwakinovevapugiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89852d8a7808096dd712e11cdd62fab2/20147358970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukhayurveda.in/userfiles/file/zabikukarivefedudik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.com/contents/files/tuwalodirorabowajug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpjse.news-read.com/upload/files/9703388204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastervin.ru/files/file/vosagalitozoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/RC0zOYPQW8A/uplcv?utm_term=download+milfy+city+latestPDF 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_off0000e441.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE441 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 1d4976ccfba82ae24fe0709ce98636fab17885a90dafa9f6497e261f82d91a22
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF9 20176 bytes
SHA-256: 7d89eef4cdceeba408acae9894df7580a977da2f1fe39d0aecc53bc97fbc885d
font_02_sfnt_off00013255.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13255 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1