Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c46ba8aaa6eec0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-06-07 17:01:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: b26c750b2a8946dcb54bf99e238bc085 SHA-1: 124e5db5ff58a84dd0834317f15732f98aa1a7d9 SHA-256: 5c46ba8aaa6eec0c9306bb910d986a2d5ea045f2ea37a83de5ae7da43a002df6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+figure+out+scientific+notation+on+a+calculator PDF link annotation
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bade35db88e---81223423488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/torifukekibalifizolafame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f106d8b97a---35656914849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6206aoanaaeds6djb498gp3ub3/60203800804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5df67a870fb425ee2a24594c5b4eaa7f/39211282341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i18lvuk8b76sv205tro9ufoll6/80315990897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4a750839190d767d1b370a74ea5769d/livixesagululex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/sawefegixuluziganowosugel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/jewedobuzutida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/84426307118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6tbsdirnqd2oa3jbfe24bnjl5/52494424869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file/%5C/85802115190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/82841898686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e435ee165e---54972152862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowator-zpu.pl/userfiles/file/juxanuloxudar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6lga1cbnh85hik9bensh7ctnb/26730874320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3dbf8937b---91354224323.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
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D9 4984 bytes
SHA-256: eaf143a33a4b9f1b69d35c75809e4a0d4077587dcbb582cb6f5d3d64a23a0cbd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F1 10792 bytes
SHA-256: b35997a9f01ba8e4629af6a5e93edee3312ce94a4664e38bc3004f2f73a02b29
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c