Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c2f76ff83f3f9a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:22:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: d696841d9184475b3b5676d168cda96e SHA-1: 1b1dafb2b729d6bc20684c983425abe078d2b91d SHA-256: 5c2f76ff83f3f9a4a02a89d186497af538b923e1709c646720f290ad3474d190
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 0.9973

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://cnc-ar.ro/files/file/lerisevewogirivosofu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31bcd25d479d5becbbb776d8654ff393/riwulez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23d5a995ab---29853935168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8037d94ec823589bf86b85355d99e3d0/fedovibubagovivivemor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapetcenter.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/50648411039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/85587018830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitymattressfactory.com/admin/userfiles/file/72508312647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodova51-53.cz/files/sasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/36718629329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/dinupemamilowakum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/c52b62c0da5e1bd1c190af7d0f865f77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/35314087809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legendtec-eg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r052iep9k0gtqa683j1jrtv8t7/82159579514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f61227e60---zoseniragodizot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crc.creativechange.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17939578003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/67022861891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents/files/91938163863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dooleysnaturalgas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xevogovorebodosirek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frickcontrols.com/uploads/files/74550751344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hujiangsy.com/upload/files/45946219666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe63dc06b0---34647341753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gafujolabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37189037293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503213902162397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=finding+a+percentage+of+a+number+worksheet+ks2PDF 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_off0000ea0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA0E 11536 bytes
SHA-256: d15f1c76629211817f18802b4fe3f98d0e4771e58eb323b89b477cbf5570a394
font_01_sfnt_off000104e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF9 19360 bytes
SHA-256: 1d3a016c58dfb0704eacc537a0ef452b08edf42f5e5c68b577f6a902d62f137a