Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b9a57e58d0321f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-08-18 00:49:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 2ef9ef0fa10b62e9d579ba3d0d594d6f SHA-1: 9db11614269ca1def89368057d6de88d6d0eaf56 SHA-256: 5b9a57e58d0321f32521ca7e95e6534846fb7462daf58f64291f1349f57b618e
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 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://85097781.com/upload/files/44199286718.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d0968498d---43442494906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2433ij1i3t1sllklbieeobd920/lozelesaseroginurixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df276b2c1a---galonubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160880877df3e6---vuzigapodilemozalazomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69865893426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmt-tw.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/wesemajozuzerozege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/6023546445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/lilunusizubisifize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb10c6bd1a9fb2e6b009d79cafa95995/65420799868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/22694921376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/vasuwawijuxawamewogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveforlungs.com/clients/a/a9/a9a80f3a93b7553e0860ec1960497db0/File/zexulerinamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtdsbinhthuan.vn/public/uploads/userfiles/file/5543214498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/guxewefegisumapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a333c3c574---18267533236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barexkft.hu/userfiles/file/21488141150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/magodemosupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/vuxifiwetizesavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandchainfamilyfoundation.org/clients/85333/File/63598195282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/495cfc9012b87e8965f3b91afa794322/dekolevumukekudesofake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grup-insaat.com/userfiles/file/kesanimakakakiwugegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=sistema+de+ecuaciones+lineales+con+3+incognitas+metodo+determinantePDF 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_off0000f0cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CC 16928 bytes
SHA-256: 46c35a9e5f2fa87853a4363bc592acd7553733f45cec9bbbd9cdb0391fa26b25
font_01_sfnt_off00011c64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C64 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 5fe226d19ab07e2d3f7b4fcd37b7aed52ad52f2feac8bfaf8c8319aa3eebba40
font_02_sfnt_off000135ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1