Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c04cf72adfd4085…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-06-19 08:07:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 14a5e342deafc5fdf4740a956baca3e5 SHA-1: 0b588d182fa614b22b44fe6bb5c5e5fd91966762 SHA-256: 5c04cf72adfd4085326df0b7e436350549043a44f83ba096b90a05f5719e120d
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 0.9996

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://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40471130f4d20ad0df3b7f2d3ebbcc97/fatapomatenimut.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f8c1b61546996b4d106ef7171f02193/80043945885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/8373707444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/tatitameruka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36a9deeb8f96974832625490e7bf9139/43365447665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/zovisamaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbwingslynnhaven.com/uploads/files/54870850389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62c0b961ba45b014c4492a159cc9919e/zizonesufejelizoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helderlive.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nidijomigokoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc43ac7fb7---nijufabonoperiruwexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1mqt8074bhuund8psd5f5tagv9/1476282435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a776622da9e---65815196862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d2ad18191---gopamosebujimiruluxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d22f0340c5dc07ee54c7f4f31c2001b1/juzorusaguvawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078def15e7a9---15058837853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/82033821447.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/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=vikings+season+5+download+freePDF 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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_off0000cbb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBB4 6744 bytes
SHA-256: 048fb1891f432488516cd811e7b04d68e7d39e548ca3495625137f8fb0c23ff4
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC99 5028 bytes
SHA-256: 5d5d74875ba4262506d9329b0776cc5a79071f4572bd9db3947e8a714f8d13d3
font_02_sfnt_off0000edd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD2 11916 bytes
SHA-256: 77da941464b87dc236ca01a97c13ef6a48333019c252a00e9a79afecfdbc00bc
font_03_sfnt_off0001147e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1147E 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 3edf2500c13bcaf333c7b24025dcc28241be7d8fb346ea74cbc5bc89a1dc47cd
font_04_sfnt_off00012d9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D9D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2