Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de53bb9bb345ad6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:04:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: c8ee88c244d6a1c825ba4c5f083155f8 SHA-1: 802d37fade506d0a24a56042f7ecc76b645dd923 SHA-256: de53bb9bb345ad6ec99785f6ce15f00c307ed3cb278d1f799a6733f5672067bb
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

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, presents a deceptive download button and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://zhuoer.ltd/userfiles/file/wamejazupojifamugodila.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e38b7c47fad---97124935481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lmtdejp4ip29nefu1r44gpa68/banoviboropigeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de2a3739b1870392dab7cb34b7a74899/88554649681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majbrno.cz/uploads/files/93423801028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designbeginnings.com/upload/file/tasilejagerobeledavido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/desuwitimekuxesexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muachungbaohiem.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tumakudawivedopevagutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4mrt2kasma7fb4jvlclj2iv2q2/4577030129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895eea71396---welotogovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecostationery.com/files/file/61345519796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29c2373ca3---86964594370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ee32de6e549ef861e5c44267e798360/84897370209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hatinhjobs.com/upload/files/70776182291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7sa24dh83a4t1r2g88o5jvr9tr/12880268091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/bemox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904c54c2a20---dedawerov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27e281c505d7e2f3e8eff4126554532/79203919825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/26759743645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d891541e8---basagumezexudifagunasepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reaga.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fapew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=superlative+adjectives+worksheets+printablePDF 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_off0000c2fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2FE 11300 bytes
SHA-256: b3a2a20cfb1c9c791fd048670e32bfe9be604bf0291147cc0ad51d8bd710d16d
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f559.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF559 17348 bytes
SHA-256: 1b8f3cdcc2b909d309e0780197f290c9971b4fb18553dc0e279dee13acbce625