Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5930bdd182af2b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:49:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 55f7db7f80bb99f8dd9a3e94226ccb20 SHA-1: 652a6493fa23f83528ded016d108d611f2a1ecd8 SHA-256: b5930bdd182af2b4b3a6e6bb245bde4342d62a64d5ea3207f83e57dad1427efd
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 0.9971

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 http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/tulubezukokuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f3e3521e9---zazakexogelumuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehlibeytalimleri.com/resimler/files/bibarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/zalamofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eedc66f616f7eba8f3b459edddd80bdd/lanugogizipavemimemaloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.djluk.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6p8u9itqtr5vpbgo42l8bgqklf/67252756020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/41976433453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/solopokabulufosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotop-zamosc.pl/userfiles/file/45521654200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7221f574db---xesenuloketijoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbe045b024---wefebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songpinhao.com/userfiles/files/75435150539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/57214348083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/nipega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolonauticofavignana.it/userfiles/files/96331750703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents//files/burinokuvadugavojoxalubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/65798502518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8a1c83b9f---gapoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/92163344141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pav6lrsgvf0pl6glbnkeul7jac/18047076689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96ee6e376f---73705550592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5hjjue6peok3h7lk16a65kvs5/molekonoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/34344875897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=tcpdf+output+file+pathPDF 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_off00013976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13976 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001518d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1518D 10408 bytes
SHA-256: a0bb8863960769bcb528cd57231cea05f93938f7d6ace5914f5a48f940236256
font_02_sfnt_off00016936.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16936 20084 bytes
SHA-256: 8d6ad0601086cb14e139019a1657cc81885f0f41142559372532ecab7a3c46ea