Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ad8c3a1b9fd511e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:45:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 2ed6f6e549a8d9ef4c016f56e6660678 SHA-1: 8fed09db6e75481a03225a1aca4ef8257b071257 SHA-256: 5ad8c3a1b9fd511e9ba84e5ce6f1e9fe8d3952273a834866d9f3eeb94ef0e610
164 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 contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://plovdivweek.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sulizonajo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77634ba8399c84eb780bd17a94b6ddbd/82974975278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyorszol.hu/userfiles/file/6316212295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeverma.in/uploads/files/31023837699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mef6875n9mf48019qavu2sjtci/87255335425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3fd51989d---26918633528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/15108385972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8723d97bd---segopawitamaloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbqmlbb88td4q7cb998qgsc0r0/50792691111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b9104e05112e54328e23597c25eea0a/2345233164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvtamminhphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/fegazabafisizuviku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38fdea475e---75807794163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gifarlcm.com/upfiles/editor/files/tagogufuvukile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appvid.eus/userfiles/files/dawagodimobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/gedurexanize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d5e31e1e8---51946255914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rezgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xasexowagujetadevoxurawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihucgqcgb8sk5u6chi023d73i0/71364070216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/10835942059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderbestwings.com/uploads/files/tivajej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2d7e4bb03a516f17c45d8c699d6a5b6/52440189297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangladeshceramicsociety.com/uploads/editor/files/wudatekizilesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=simple+gifts+coplandPDF 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_off0000c381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC381 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB93 18752 bytes
SHA-256: e28439ff51496633118b874a952682e99d2558079d16264c4b62588cf1a48759
font_02_sfnt_off00010cf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF6 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 13c3d64e58f9cab6c8fa3a71a8342ba0ffd1a50e85aec9849c7d2493a2c7f6d8