Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a53f0da46421700b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 06:13:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 6bfeee2dcec892b624054d5af0fdc4d3 SHA-1: 10a752fdd06be06a50b50592435cad310d39de3f SHA-256: a53f0da46421700baa44e053549023a69622b71ff0c1e96e49fb1d42c6c1ff67
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 0.9908

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hack+catchers+zombie PDF link annotation
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/luzidaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcgo.tw/uploadpic/files/guwatirupinevorozapegibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webrobogo.hu/kepek/lefelaputetazip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/87545188952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purevdavaa.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/24480291070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actlogistic.vn/upload/editor/files/55990229651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wangwangcamp.com/uploads/files/202109060607003249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sin-hua.org/userfiles/nuzig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ab0bbee7e3---41113515566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highdeal.linkeo.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65103877913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6331ed2deb77e6e20a98cf9e92b2c04/mutexup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclearusa.com/images/file/7261542059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pre-www.bridge-academy.com/uploaded/ckeditor/files/65996838715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/duxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.eu/userfiles/file/65662964497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jd6618.com/jd6618/file/2021-9/file/LwpCms2021_09_11_07_08_59_8801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyersmarketingusa.com/user_upload_image/file/In PDF document text
    • http://mtreurope.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57964018889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portalbime.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/zuretapijisufejonude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energyexcess.com/userfiles/file/jegabime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28bea10a92a8f41255c5b7efc9c93e8d/96894255536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/92553958727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/rasirijufudimifivude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/18519444455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boek.se/bilder_umeny/File/xexil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/8424395482.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_off0000c26a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC26A 19628 bytes
SHA-256: 423c2dbddc0a58ef6a4f767bd9526fd6f05f53fb5def9256b2475c5beac0ba26
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010df7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DF7 10628 bytes
SHA-256: fbf5ce2c60d8b3008e124269f4ad4a508f2ed887f6b37819a2083f767440ff7c