Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5482104a9b121013…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:29:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 3279b6c0e1e618870eb52a63ebfd44f4 SHA-1: fc7a6290a22f03b12cd2965c5bfb4216c402109a SHA-256: 5482104a9b12101325ac37832e4ae8cf2c78e499e53aa0dcc96ef6a4b6ad4f34
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an urgency-based lure. 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 0.9974

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbf9a3172e---55831479559.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/gazuxaxumikotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f606fcf8e2---3186283387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/zuguvulawosot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjugk4a885r3tbtf9hl2hvkua0/mixes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycolaborativo.com/uploads/files/54114986443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f35f181d69466842970042a15c4d1c3d/34927421173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710de0af6a9---niwifakabilorasibasaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/benufedowarakiborizor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varadimasszazs.hu/uploads/files/juxeredisebunexab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/39484595309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/20712859984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitpoint.tw/userfiles/file/tovunimomavifijej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50eb4ceb7f---58607484326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5616a47074---jitadesilamonudukube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/lobizononilonozekajuvet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syarmarka.ru/userfiles/files/lumusodutaxosete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afde29daec8---70089224019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snieznik.pl/userfiles/file/19783760241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608309fcda3da---26518924665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://judge1960reunion.com/clients/873273/File/pirewudanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021042906581893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/47592079186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vtoj3jbh3l0q7vc8vq3arjhof/65866875570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=3m+bair+hugger+model+775+service+manualPDF 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_off0000e356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE356 11284 bytes
SHA-256: 1e6194990c0106d4592338252a31cbf9df46c03489f6db679a8c586bd8165779
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD6B 20060 bytes
SHA-256: a9bd44166a6dba26686e80de0532ade4f33c9f60abc07a6ab1e56b118bbe89c4
font_02_sfnt_off00013248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13248 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1