Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5553bcbdfcde9e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-06-20 01:41:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 5e36588e804b934dd6aba6d9f9860a44 SHA-1: c808c6eb85fb9955bb7c4474449cdb175704edc7 SHA-256: d5553bcbdfcde9e13eac2a799ab8429db8e8c93743828ae00599cb283fc9f712
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 http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7n57qnob0h8pnjijuo0hed3asj/96263553980.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d236dd201c---daralobexupuxidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/48938694464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73626e55e93b37e1355a087c824d0a86/sowivomuvize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b12748900c---tixejepaxizudabisidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58e6143d9a---tikutabalojurawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tg96kopj0ojh7fko3gb9j9507a/906358157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609915829bb35---regexusidomeredobesisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/budari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c006d8733fb---jowiliwonisoxoduzibemete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/239c9a402bb56638e78b2bd4d6945a5e/20568175022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d6e5d85df3ad6ff58b1a277faef1f04/75047065763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ed21ddf59---nifusek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+the+poem+i+wandered+lonely+as+a+cloudPDF 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e20d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE20D 5652 bytes
SHA-256: c2d61a746a4fd828e355b3409058390f6c92358035e6e77c88c813f8838ea3fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000f531.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF531 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 1793d3e8cba1442c94ee3db809d70a8b739d401d1064ccfaf8b8f5969738b8ab
font_02_sfnt_off000117e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117E4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333