Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5946d62be98698a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:25:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: d5fa6ad3fc6f5daaba2c658fae3ea0db SHA-1: 80161d418cca6e5dc40eea2dac5506ad931e34f1 SHA-256: 5946d62be98698a3e821276a4a8ee415f75a267ae95d88a687de288a46eff23f
176 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 and uses an image-based lure. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 70 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://weishinclinic.com/uploads/files/202108181731575328.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736182d83f3---15264878561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba8fdf46e39628a2a1ca6868eeaa7a13/merapuwukivegefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76ab74e9d3e6c588d92bad2242c4a8f3/wowelubizupamimarud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/78763732580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97v7umofj5sualrd3he90vo1uo/91198923701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd721b05a3d---80836826761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/bozixodirinozibosisiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/ifixumusinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94745ed5e3---tusafugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/vubukibiwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/jurewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82omn663b5qiif993bqe3o3gt5/65598217117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b6a538ca85---suxabemosumovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granite1962.com/clients/869125/File/18240085300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irastuff.com/admin/ckfinder/uploads/files/sorowotebadapokovoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumtrade.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pozavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrzion.com/data/userfiles/files/57760429071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8gs46bntl9unt20v7bjn1dfe0m/65007921354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/50549667969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tropo-design.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20701678375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+pages+from+pdfPDF 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_off0000b8b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8B7 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 780cd58687cb773889ce3ee1457d854ef586ba501975e4ed534c4c4aa7a86feb
font_01_sfnt_off0000d112.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD112 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e924.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE924 14144 bytes
SHA-256: 7114d774a8512a33db4f1a55819effbfbbae6905148a5732c3f5975262b1c445