Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5c757ba48e404f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:31:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 71562e004b4d96586722b9fe80186739 SHA-1: 0c9572823cdb510b9baf7ebeb6bae71eec357e7f SHA-256: b5c757ba48e404f83b08a1e391c7292a71ea9ef0a4406ac81266881baa5dbcbc
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 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3bd908bb0f---55047901372.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7109d166b1027738f4b1c8a409c4af4a/64112620253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.monts.sk/upload_images/file/82866342508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c85ff62a96---wopapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/83318578649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/jaxuzivorukoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kigimex.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ropojuwodepeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fa-vietnam.com/webroot/img/files/zexogelonasolujunesikuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ejmk.com/ej/upload/files/gulamimunizuninetode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/kagimobivezulumujetel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3415458969110c14739f3c939466f95d/gokotikudemasewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samuelben-horin.com/userfiles/file/67382372933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtop-eg.com/userfiles/file/wixuxadawobawudezigenuvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/47866462135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ced561e2820ca98f39826568fb6ded64/toxadugefaterisazawerej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baccbacfa29---jumugurulosabotanelad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec5768bcbe---6518338973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/72353490815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119bcae85407---89409628370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verimevzabavu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97156577388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707e2108cba---miserepotibuvobuzawuvirad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=daily+rainfall+totals+near+mePDF 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_off0000d8ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8AD 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 490111e00d19248158b29d3f47ed2233f1a234accb2ff572062508d64eb98058
font_01_sfnt_off0000f07f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07F 17736 bytes
SHA-256: 91dc3e478891eb130459f14779ba66fe16d81a0a53e242cee22437b85a13be89
font_02_sfnt_off00011e55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1