Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54d97a28d5a01bf1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-08-24 18:54:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 4ad31afbb961f3d96a696a09406adc0e SHA-1: b135cf9469cde8a0b0ec17ef75d927442ba0c0fa SHA-256: 54d97a28d5a01bf1b7ff547c4e5bc81f6509b7e98a98d6d7a43480c4cb15d1fc
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://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607653bbedcdc---85169151874.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1miaqbtcve8ovlvcsmqjpovtb0/99752613688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/52367963532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/viwakexomulaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7ea56067c---80087477516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79138422656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vamaconsulting.sk/userfiles/file/51902785020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07f97ef6b32f4fdd6b821a0bc1ebb2de/15293209985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db1e1f102ab31d6ea30911bd6ddbeca2/97067030565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locthanhroyal.com/upload/files/17593518979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7085e888a013d58165ccfc810413706c/96402687091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5faf612da4---daxitejix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/xudurolojulixat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/50282508850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://global-brand.net/userfiles/files/rurijuwuzolugifiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af699ccbdeb---gitufodugixefaxexilireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turhantur.com/turhantur/files/josowedagizojenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esperanzadeavila.com/fotos/file/numizefekenukigava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petercar0937494634.com/upload/img/files/nafeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b7f25571091---xulugipugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/56531511882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/89763865665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=file+converter+from+pdf+to+wordPDF 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_off0000e596.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE596 15856 bytes
SHA-256: 56cb2a679e4f6656f7cac829ac2c0693aca99baf33cc6e3a45bd163d345fac33
font_01_sfnt_off00010e4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E4E 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 2670e71ce2b07ad6febd69f4aa531929dc195b8967986b1044be0a3c69a92758
font_02_sfnt_off0001266a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1266A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1