Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c4a2c6a1edb271a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-08-21 23:36:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 575e4b0ad79d2c8f4a65a30512d66d85 SHA-1: fc7f2b5f8d2dfac46d58548c1dd7521cb8d6a497 SHA-256: 5c4a2c6a1edb271ad52bf45ea779d303fbd2be23a2cdff9f24c8779dce76d57d
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 0.9974

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=answer+key+analyzing+and+interpreting+scientific+data+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95402a1f828d44be187a4820d0841db9/49390922077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31823232341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/pejatonulivabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruiguoex.com/upfile/files/2021/06/14/53441588158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/78931517781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d7cbf7b630---bonavuveronomosowigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/21598713395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea459f7945ad5ae40a645b21fdd82cfd/papitofegufazapolumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/73134001124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///nozoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc40d03674---99518699062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhieuchuan.com/upload/files/67714433691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c84elu5di4fdhb5bjqn48ub41m/13924753161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a92095700---rilagol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gs4fe0pb99arnkbsl1rtdldqj0/507835482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/91913080623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adian.eus/files/galeria/files/63221970067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf777810a68b516869be56677e1ec9b2/nimedewozabolexew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/didagagukijobilebixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://excitechem.com/userfiles/file/fojixoruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semineebrasov.ro/printuri-fi/files/wuruxeseragijivurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srsatta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/peneredodixaval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885f91526d7---timefala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/75924183518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6302faf8ffef0298e680a37492439ebb/fivetogadavebozixexoveda.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e663.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE663 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 36db3d67150bc0fe48a6928526fe816d9aae013e17cf9c8f508b70aa64e2f855
font_01_sfnt_off00010097.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10097 17480 bytes
SHA-256: 2a4c30b1f88df445787b0b04a2b095e88c85e5a50109e2a62bbb4886aaf9bc64
font_02_sfnt_off00012e15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1