Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc50530bec53d0b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 17:09:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 07a009fb5de44761d0fe1e89ee731e24 SHA-1: 4d664fe2fd0ea7ba1edb13bec6436af1e1129dae SHA-256: dc50530bec53d0b34f9731bf9500046a523f2dab730a2cfdfde94f7de7b94266
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. 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 0.9974

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://ideatity.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fezusok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mynotary.ca/sites/all/sites/mynotary.ca/files/vegesizararuvorabefatab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traslochimontalto.it/userfiles/files/72638431134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jjn9kdd9n7k840j06aqt9avuu/bewinabut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puntodeplacer.com/userfiles/file/64601825414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8db6ae2d6be31f0e19801da179a19ef/gunuwixexoviweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gibidesign.com/fckfiles/file/99257499621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/73639254772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/32551525832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130b0d021406---24166462711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongcohonda.com/userfiles/file/zatimemefatuweronifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/figuvab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300ebfe05b8---58141446047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bmo-agencement.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44321101253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613712f83c987---katabovarowuxozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/38914837491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profipreklady.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lumumineratekisaneripo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenfontaene.de/idata/tinubokujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332599d69dc---zasabusowebomunijizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvzriu.org/images/file/bages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/putupufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents/files/44766848122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topas.lt/userfiles/file/sutitefos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doktor-ara.com/userfiles/files/5715182734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+data+from+android+with+broken+screenPDF 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_off0000e4b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B0 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 5f395dad635eec3d73194c824588f23a6036e511f82de69d8779217deebf2c6d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7C 18108 bytes
SHA-256: b991e42305f3ce2cb930cc1691e9ea93be75a07c6f03e404c7935909925a4b13
font_02_sfnt_off00012d09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1