Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ab8e01a7ea64979…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-23 20:17:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: e23478ccc9a657f57642363a3627df0e SHA-1: 7c1378d5570bb352a8e7e9af205439b5b841e0df SHA-256: 5ab8e01a7ea64979570534a7d6ad92b77498a41c37344be6a104473327e6a247
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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.
  • 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://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/dajivubarogukuxun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/fuzijogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/85543201610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zupidojarunima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9m2ic24o37v5lph49btlbf1fk/31324461803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/mirixinofiwanevezopizarez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa76eba336ae6ccdf52e50f948f3b5c0/zajuvomanefolebusepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/rubusavufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a84b0b7a9a8---gozavagekipipibolesujetem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--22ck6bdp5cach0mc23a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29148595730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926a1564a6d---61415661302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/lukabapizenasozesefuwinix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/34133414552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8698a9750c7a3698d3f07261cb86178/28898942614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=salary+voucher+formatPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e494.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE494 4936 bytes
SHA-256: 1a78552a6b8c296cd341b67c1510229da1e47a3550afb88d1fb40ea0206b48a3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f55f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF55F 2744 bytes
SHA-256: dae0f12506c17deaa818396cb86411da2f7a72f10e575d6fda98e021880a3e82
font_02_sfnt_off0001010a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010A 10544 bytes
SHA-256: fcd97332149178bd768033f9c634f30c82ad3417340d961c8e3357a6e79b2141
font_03_sfnt_off00012522.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12522 16148 bytes
SHA-256: 333c6b7950143ef5b768b9d621755905cb9f9f437be433e332b6baa8edb2b5fd
font_04_sfnt_off00013a32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A32 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71