Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7514939c591a9c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-06-10 07:13:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 39db8b39e214f87b6c7f1f2bdd5b7bd8 SHA-1: c3bb510b2fe085c347cec2d4a3f0367e683f15ed SHA-256: e7514939c591a9c06ba8e3332409cfa8e524013d479bda3d624f60793424fd92
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a security-bypass 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 0.9997

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
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=autocad+2013+activation+code+generator+x+force PDF link annotation
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0783ef24a43ce9caa85f993234a782bb/pagakukukajanelux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078247869321---febize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a4b81a3bbb11d889b80fe00a506407b/fibetawuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/froa0btcc1jbogktb697cgo3u6/waligebanub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b5c346405b87ad9d6c0ad1fdecb544b/jetatozejokodexixatopemuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06e8aab3b868e6d17b058335b9249c52/27075944690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b70de16e5e6ca467e9958cefe6217c1c/15604021969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doucetplasticsurgery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fofuzikuwatuwabejimebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/najijemipemibejigujep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/35387642848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52jqnmk0i264d4b6iqendn4899/31452370016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f9619bb1ca0e1416727fa9b3ed7605e/1639117895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/6161142723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3a5528413---54777075234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off00012c4c.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x12C4C 18388 bytes
SHA-256: 6d397281caa3c72937e52a7c7e40b3989245bd1383a7d08e1573a3bf9058ea32
font_00_sfnt_off0000f299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF299 5588 bytes
SHA-256: 1258d11d3f9c1b5d30128c0d5c112ad009ba84fb125625d0605bd2ca5b0dbd5e
font_01_sfnt_off000105c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C4 11648 bytes
SHA-256: 7ed8d0047b3e0dc14b2be88195ef649c38ce79937f7d855fe49aa7429f0fbee8