Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83053319ca2cecdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 21:14:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 37e8232488f29c576a01490c24c5b4ab SHA-1: 2a0843d58f60555bc613277fee0dad51064dc11b SHA-256: 83053319ca2cecdffb6acec04a73147ef351b95ec9df1dcbb147d83e56552940
196 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. It uses a fake browser/software-install lure. 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 0.9908

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://poulinstrapscan.com/userfiles/file/33292852949.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75725416356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379e257d0e0---81222693245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccardolj.ro/userfiles/file/wupojevageja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e143421b64---kuwididisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rougezenekar.hu/files/file/gimepomoluxifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bozoklar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xetetegewuxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heydarbaba.org/resimler/files/kenaxowanolunosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/99921271386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curvy.tw/upload/files/79484831253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/50353524575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0c73dfed58717773cfebd724189b29c/70449969191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sabaispa.net/userfiles/file/modorepekelojigidibeketow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/98305824613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovituruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/visojifenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.focitabor.hu/userfiles/file/20443660044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jen5f3pv7eqntn2gr0rf5s81d3/92961693786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yp05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/51280315479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tarsiman.ee/files/file/62607631494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eagle-aviation.com/userfiles/files/65756812706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotteppta.net/beta/assets/file/5596984920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/22495166599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicamarsala.it/userfiles/files/gifelodijikijawodudek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/febiwubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpusbg.com/files/fck/file/19052741447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/69366258889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/95318527441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+chromecast+from+phone+to+tvPDF 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_off0000bc41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC41 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d453.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD453 16544 bytes
SHA-256: d0fb3cc7d26fea363df899a912e11ae22171ba71b198c0fcd409076bf324d3c1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF05 10748 bytes
SHA-256: adfb2099bbf797d856e37feac13795034fbf96f0af76b888b0ac563b5d91f70c