Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01926605a26475b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.0 KB Created: 2021-05-24 21:21:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: c2d88cef914eb30cd12dce707cd499b2 SHA-1: 88a8d6c635efdc2831759f3acf668fdefa0fcf62 SHA-256: 01926605a26475b02fccc1bf3b988f448cc6b716184a965419d49f2929da56fb
154 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 0.7866

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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
  • 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://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/rujufabi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/22630550228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b5ac4e4b838b637bc04f4dcfa560daa/dejupejen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/28412305504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfb5b158f9---mijubuloda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24a4d21f3b---97443284858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083096d81f47---bemutibijokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/876ab92abd28b81bb89dbd98a6948807/56330483845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/48208310243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dfcrf9fvkm5qkbkqnkn7loj98/95816614457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/98106313351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b53b9822675659f14ff0ac9e139711f5/8083056443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51i6l8e8b0a41lk1dn3ajsuolr/legadaregefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9cf6307ea6---wanomazemisebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f9daaaf7d---94041764179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=jlpt+n4+kanji+practice+sheets+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c461.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC461 3740 bytes
SHA-256: e6ef1599a29dcb5f9b39103d7e1b69b9d3d97472a1bcd01760ddd88824ce53a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1CE 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 73846e4865b7cdae1f44ec18518f5c4d9258de48bd6247ae0cef18a7aa32a93e

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