Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 027aab68890d6c01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.1 KB Created: 2021-08-16 19:42:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 64117a896ce631b5ed89531b8ab018a8 SHA-1: 83c35bb5687adceb00ac4cb09f64226981c19cc3 SHA-256: 027aab68890d6c012d301a54e0dbc5e833b4faf775882f7c9f1a04420112b1a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 0.9976

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+can+a+lysosome+be+compared+to+in+real+life PDF link annotation
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1ac3f13fe91e1fcd70abd85d8255785/66543640459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/85033344438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072987fc3428---36980101933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/96505273824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crc.creativechange.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53670657507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/zerugorexusazolemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serka.com/serka/upload/files/sagupuzederuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8623723530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/tonebiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e9e9ab59a7bad0cdac156e5be591681/65094387934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bme1dri8t176kh469thfvr5o4/21166372572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4412e84ef99558ddbf308daf144b6400/86168069827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3a543209f9---53481094154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sewakendragroup.com/userfiles/file/53236334187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/64131076981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de8b7f72abf---81788313504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cacf871a90---jagon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/fubezakimupivowudemig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b52e57b61eb---bowudovoroxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/nogubomarob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0304a66e42---kubosalisulefekefumezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/50282419978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609113ce0c9cb---doronipolutefizem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aadfbf7b5c4---sifapem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/dijezakupimim.pdfIn 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000157cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157CC 11132 bytes
SHA-256: e610bdedf3e82dce48349c145fb6ad8865608da4b85d9f0d98b7d1007f0897a7
font_01_sfnt_off00017165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17165 19996 bytes
SHA-256: d39d0051af05cf004cbe8dbc37c2d8767b3b092638a609261813b98cb6d45bf3
font_02_sfnt_off0001a55e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A55E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1