Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54f64bd5cadced9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 02:49:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: f87f84a158a7d09d77e0006eaeb82f78 SHA-1: 546133531763c2b7b3d47ef16dd0ef8830a358a2 SHA-256: 54f64bd5cadced9f14012564682dc46a1c2cbaa69948939abd1097cf18178834
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 0.9947

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+long+to+finish+bachelor+degree PDF link annotation
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/76528019661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7d4c864d59e9411bc89e198471daa75/14476861018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siahotel.com/userfiles/files/84275858163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e92bd45ea---basajuvudixalidetozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09d9ced71cc072d5ed453bb5cd3cf537/zobomisakukige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/jibalolubumubev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/rerexuwonibalego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yar-net.ru/userfiles/file/67364510136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutheapec.com/upload/FCK/file/munufosivuxojakunexigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e36eb3b0f7---56659962297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d81c50f79---24970552422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dcfd7b9aa2---sidebubivegedejapemivepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c333ad89506f260471cf5565ac0050b4/liduxefirokurosebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c96e22ca85---zalujut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160970f4e7c6c4---wilulidegebukezovul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3c4cdabc61---vetusuwuranokubupogavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-13/20210513132144417520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/kagozofukogozodiduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085655214b1f---14595914271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/70341406197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/28051292665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b071690ea---setomafurasubuzulomari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/punikasemokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b77152ae1b---roguruwowebazikujiver.pdfIn 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://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_off0000fa8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA8A 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 7b9a7cf9eb30e047d04223853f14d1e29525901f29e38eea04c64341f14a8cfe
font_01_sfnt_off000113c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113C7 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 74aa0b0716d47f51149a21e1cc2f43ed02acce4cb0083802ba9148063c38d815
font_02_sfnt_off000140b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1