Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5285c7aec7666c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 11:25:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 9deebcf472f002df5c5f2cd241c1fc7e SHA-1: e42cb44299c00a7d81ef7d2753d36ea4295b8ede SHA-256: d5285c7aec7666c1ab80160393fd884445515120942538b0f209ad8b0bac2c04
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript 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 routes users through malicious redirector infrastructure. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202108152359444467.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1f5e2d542---94915303422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ea7157a23---66950177249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncfc.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kagatavozirigokawapajagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wacommerce.net/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mutidiramojebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/mobalewuwadunexisomarakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70a226e4b37a3bef9f7582edc6996d03/51119753350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa54f0eb8914eff243c767c517832c0c/14076780055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14355277176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/rarizulukijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6716bea9843a263f72656c80ddca117/mevaxenadamuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c55f45d8c63---75691437237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/fonivekarikej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/logigimutemidevoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/48386049738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ee0vqbr12mgfb17i3jpg130tg/foloburupoled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/robinetutimivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beta-rc.com/upload/files/17120016201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/82370223609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5e2862a664---60237708137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ritascreation.com/userfiles/file/nemibin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e89d38f7bba7951c84a713cea39894d5/41018948840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/vaxifeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/99088752274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3pvtl527a4lmu5mioosuqkbje/tijadorugizisivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3e4f5af9d1069ae635de9381d0978e9/49967170875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=best+write+on+pdf+appPDF 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_off0000ebc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC9 17336 bytes
SHA-256: 0aa3cf1713d351fcf7bfc82c4d3bba094b13143c838444bfa818ac3eefab7ba0
font_01_sfnt_off00011812.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11812 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 1fee2b1bf67fc97624e0f403a3ae074bd4cd5b1e1c1868dd8b43c85f5cd3e963
font_02_sfnt_off00013078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13078 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1