Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5c511b8345055e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-06-20 02:08:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 24ebf519172ee928ce0b6f293641d766 SHA-1: 92c85cc438e25fced2179318b2962c9778c1734b SHA-256: a5c511b8345055e04e71a62b9bb0129b8d96f1c050f81c77af56c692612671c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9998

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://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852990b9e11---didexuvogizatubaxome.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098dc398141f---4207995624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/85444967741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaushalacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/konimade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a215495f2d3---3928842622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985deb5d1a5---54775025913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/pekevatagebilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qtqtf4biiq80rdk7sa0r1i2457/96108707681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sho3ug7cv04nqn84lo0jbvdv64/3522932930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871eadb1b9a---nelubovuwemegej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa467a42d28639ce851e4cdbc8df1a6e/21424721965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/jaxiwopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7296c4fbe0---81116387490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db13c2aef38442d5b3a2cd7f47e3d962/koxonetojidapeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7ec0587a5---musuzamalazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a1071468487e398b2e9b31021570b1f/kinasotumomum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/406qkc8sv8jhij5ie8nel2ft7c/renokipesotufode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070407f7b2c8---digipige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=parkour+mc+ipPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000d270.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD270 4936 bytes
SHA-256: 6189eb491267d6b22b11d58fecb69308fb12bb90871c0b9d9deb85ef831b7629
font_01_sfnt_off0000e328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE328 14152 bytes
SHA-256: 481801299244a8370f10058fb451842fef2765473dd1405826f16fc31a94289c
font_02_sfnt_off00010ffa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FFA 16192 bytes
SHA-256: 75ae46b37e824a31f3d2919be60c52daf1ed383ea62173cd6befebe04d4d68f2