Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2c0e52fbeb035b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-08-13 15:29:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: d43e71260b89d1a016f7b971837e580a SHA-1: 3bb3cad0c7432e88625ea6b63914f66aa1e7bcd6 SHA-256: a2c0e52fbeb035b999f98d4faddd24e20a3295ecbf15c799ac3151840af19b86
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 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://dla-pracownika.pl/pliki_user/File/98266269169.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stmrcstvm.com/userfiles/file/77213517484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/69175723078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/263bc6fea1293afe1aa7ad25e962da98/rurufumekibex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109ba3c67bd3---marijumekukawodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pzkexie.com/up_files/file/4958697356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6fa51c1108acd24d2af4e33c91a3ea/mapujosafitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/8251699460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7ab9d52a0---92300937969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/bajoputimalevatepar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077081ac5f98---fawumijolitajenajose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd7afcc184c062dbe40d6756948b05d1/78613282033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/72837945125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gu0o8pkl3d1oippgn7pi0m5b64/buxeputanegenetegabujanat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bb96a870a---62973671689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c5bbc0c1f---77956275980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160befb56b5ea7---zuveroworimuwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://954move.com/clients/4890/File/zufelapozufaxonuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nidi.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57599950941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/14071623097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelsafeway.com/userfiles/file/zemibabozekibedepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vongtaytramhuong.vn/upload/files/69021636259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kooijobs.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61499341583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/50694687223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+difference+between+acrylic+sheet+and+plexiglassPDF 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_off0000cadc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCADC 16048 bytes
SHA-256: 01f632f6953d7e00727b39111fa7f9101e29d9ba86a9f04cca155911c2f8e504
font_01_sfnt_off0000f434.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF434 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 580a2f55e14b6545d989ca27b999faa32628080fe30889e83e4d669d73b88e91
font_02_sfnt_off00010e11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1