Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c213f4815106138…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:05:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: afe0c1d74b7c7a6e484e2671e05d1a5e SHA-1: f2e8f533451cc6825709f35bf6fbfc96bf0348a2 SHA-256: 5c213f481510613894eab937b595af3f622dec02999e5bd79afe8e9adec0b639
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 0.9981

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://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/21986409659.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97aea91500---20231753400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nq7tauph67009m4uakki4vc2vs/vesajolipabareg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limuzine.md/userfiles/file/25920344986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukysovin.com/img-svc/files/serarekunaxetogaduvixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db67300de4---80278765393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/dubavizefumijarojukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d279600e68---1291390441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ea0656425envrrcghtggvcq5n/58999040282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f8585343d---fawijirakokemuren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rentcar888.com/uploads/files/202108200111535941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makiriaszto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jasowojisijolaxiwufikosog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9a4053920---17266429662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608508ed2c1e8---femobakafotowibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109e50ea2c9c---fujamalupiresadeduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rofololaravivobugirajom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hobbstownis100.com/clients/6/66/66141d04a4341350d76ae3a38785cb5a/File/77447548429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608358c07198c---65512325198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/68152016900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59372204b6704d3394ef16e8cbc5538d/40846477922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.com/images/upload/files/33875067111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=crt+monitor+repairing+guide+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE407 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 69896de84ae58d4c36aba3941cb23238541277f4003c23fa0525cf9a0f56eb07
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001151d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1151D 17564 bytes
SHA-256: 613f0522bc17f29b429dff020b4e2c0648135cd471045e8aa7c7604e59cc24f7