Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c518c47e463f368f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 12:54:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 44d267e78bf596152e813808296ff70d SHA-1: e51494cdb5360a4153bd1bd5813d4b8dc3d31a24 SHA-256: c518c47e463f368fc4110260ed7dfcfe82fe9a93b8ee0575f4391c12b64f97e9
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of 'Powershell V1.0' in the document text, along with ML and ClamAV detections, strongly indicates malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings point to a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://soles2walk.com/data/file/7848452867.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f7ae19bc3---8401692530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmjmt.com/news/upload/file/210911113756883904w63u7z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlspoland.co/files/file/16055574707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afoa.org.ar/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51608126516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c46f092a28---fepixisifolojoladevaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yogaspotny.com/userfiles/file/72355928505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energywork.pl/userfiles/file/55014703272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/35028585209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olivetheater.com/userData/board/file/86432864195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcss.hu/korosi/userfiles/file/bativivobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4dbd991546af5927374f226299c5d68/motezovekasemurizazuzapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwnickersonplaza.com/uploads/files/7923188891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khangvietdn.com/uploads/file/9285963997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/82859057790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vxclouds.com/userfiles/file/segotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekkercoon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4987552102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2safe4u.cz/UserFiles/File/dulagalusejaverufadike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/lujasizukesexavawefoped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gestaocipa.com/public_html/Imagens/file/diwuxuzom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://molenat-energies.fr/molenat.com/images/editor/file/zaperudiwirizegodebarar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/rekavirakerewuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=pc+windows+7+play+store+app+downloadPDF 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_off0000dcfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f514.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF514 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 803f0bdb424621df9ef21c81640fbe6698ac765850fb8e5fc26d3eb296d8182e
font_02_sfnt_off00010e1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E1D 18980 bytes
SHA-256: 24cfc8758cfd2cd6d31c6cdbe738a27c564524db2140d312ca8a864bf4b8ecd9