Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5949d6c3cae4b19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-08-19 10:12:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 363a47c54da45786362fd42c59df477a SHA-1: fedd69a2867a6d14c93bffac138a0dc36f2956e7 SHA-256: a5949d6c3cae4b1989651528f0c321644ba9765a866b0ac86b986ddb1bf2b1ef
204 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 clipboard-command (paste-and-run) lure and an urgency-based 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 0.9988

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 http://xn--h49avwqct32ewe967crscpsaz7d.com/ckupload/files/5226206491.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/19751823250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/74048678773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juraganmonyet.com/contents//files/xuvoruxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/wemikezoxorogafabixixivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cmgfurff486cpa72b42o6h7d71/30295321097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/vikadivasagenolujodimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u965lalmqrumo3iuu0m0d8ph3r/88058805286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.lu/upload/53439648348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valerart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7399126477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grootformaatspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/30663493471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/49349818933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rnralpha.cz/res/file/lowofabava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0c03804e1---30925929050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicoral.com/img/userfiles/files/jusinogefisonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/wakokogemimumodaxubetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826f94024c3---gifapuzezevaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-1commercialkitchenservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lexizifofodizojakavonut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapsda.org/SapmaUserfiles/file/83295646695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pampa.be/uploads/userfiles/files/wisekiziwetufekuwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed74d83e809030fdae07c92ba2b75644/7976468465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1932ec858eb68e5792c9330edf8eb234/punulosutepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=windows+10+iso+file+usb+bootablePDF 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_off0000eb23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10335 17440 bytes
SHA-256: 20186a90ae5b464d0149435c32af511d03d505329174ec7cb6191c7f1d47d09a
font_02_sfnt_off00013110.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13110 10740 bytes
SHA-256: b62ded61607e2b76cc6be6868309e2355aaccf0bdba51d074c83bd7792c5fc80