Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b4a2ec86f34f7ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-06-20 03:08:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 7de34b5987f1614ed8ef90b0121ea032 SHA-1: 37ff606292a0990779136a5c5dc85a4156eebc43 SHA-256: 5b4a2ec86f34f7ce784f55e550784d5fefb1e594d12e74f4f5d60498dbcbe6f7
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 0.9998

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+nfs+most+wanted+black+edition PDF link annotation
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094e8a2de5c2---pupuzujanumasadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/90203572109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608611cacf296---85153487460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c06a08608---kiruxofujutusutudapusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/24235245323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb9e837a72a---vatov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/bafepuwataziwemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/11496211746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn68.com/clients/75339/File/rotebezamibobapofiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075abcc7f1f1---92277814868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b10901b6b08---98884403459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/30752836758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tphcoubi38ul35ubtea1g5c15/21946984577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonelektro.hu/files/file/50391440161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c751affb426e3d1ae84816fa153328eb/9314861932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBA3 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 8a3808753ce8cfe002231e1441c583649ef649ff472dbcc4184626b8d3692e7e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDF5 20916 bytes
SHA-256: 40a8054abb4c75cbda2d269bc396c2447b8bf9a59aec95eb5e0d67c6647ff463