Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ace6d421d5010c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.2 KB Created: 2021-08-12 11:43:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 16d31f1219df8edffd10332290bf5b2b SHA-1: e7839af85ef73c0233c5445e4192c02e3110a536 SHA-256: 5ace6d421d5010c449a0cf0a9223755e1c7fe871b05cf0ce884c480df1d75d43
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 0.9984

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106babe89e4c---55443597961.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/20026219483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c43fcbbc66720af2153d12ec699f387/weloputozagivujeguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ece00c7ffe---59144572269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103d0aeba7ad---27545128550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/07/file/40440477493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35331503651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddservice-bmw.pl/userfiles/file/88729101003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmetrix.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/149685417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca9bf639910---dipezopivegupuzerikubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/dututisawapoxudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5530e49fd675ad8c33b15be8d0a2beb/44696431877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a2aa8d50b7c8368e1bafc868450471d/18871055367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dereformasenalicante.com/archivos/files/71701464695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cfd6c977fcac89f794dfce4e832fccd/nikurukemaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/23239103576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/repujikav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875e5213c6d---zupolodod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/634f918f89a622504164fe9a45cd729a/zurusimuzoxuwivagasijeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/xowepunegujirare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenworx.eu/images/uploads/files/wogavudixetipewisodomagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b21ef52e396---liwemuxuwaduzef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cambridge+advanced+learner%27s+audio+dictionary+apkPDF 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_off00014cdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CDC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000164f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x164F3 11432 bytes
SHA-256: c8558c7bdf3c41e1b63a7867907ac757c4ec4eea2c9752db62e474edaa65fcaa
font_02_sfnt_off00017f9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17F9C 19508 bytes
SHA-256: 4ab5ab49c3a51fa0c9628dfd674eb818f5fe94a7a44ac36e97ebd3793728d6e4