Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a546f1a19c11500…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-20 09:30:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: d73dba2a346c5467f8631eff2f2dbc4c SHA-1: f73e0bc793a04387892dd72ff754549a749cf406 SHA-256: 0a546f1a19c115000113ca806bc8a80b70235e2bb7fbcc0c6b45111d80b43fbc
156 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 0.9998

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://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26151d7fd5258df221de8f83a0a0e105/tofomikopobafuferik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762a5d9aa5b---24979127955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbellamohali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42c4a1e9a9711ce78bcb80199f606b7b/3353204512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082694646d08---98006159510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/mexinewelodebamanazapuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adreshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/bogaxonanaxefutopif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14mf189tbbb5368bqfl4665up4/xukevijixexonog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3d203c7bb68516d6797d249a1679183/dakamozif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd947473e9---53134098025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sixtyguildersresearch.com/admin/photos/file/67179449326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/85604113133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/47084319077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3749c2529d46b356eddcbfeb42e776c4/supemifufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097fa2c320ca---nusinegopirivifiniliperen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69aeffbe603adb954d11f880b9dfd953/kixuxizadavatir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=mahamrityunjay+mantra+mp3+download+by+shankar+sahneyPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001019d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019D 5844 bytes
SHA-256: c1077318cc4e5ab676e6433a534e18d9bd57f42a2cb0bbea1f9082b998685a4a
font_01_sfnt_off00011575.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11575 10692 bytes
SHA-256: db03737fe796304cd13e03e37958b0d837e013616c4baaafe1553de5fad8d1e2
font_02_sfnt_off00013a69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A69 3240 bytes
SHA-256: ea5ec90f1d18b2ac14fe0ebdba629eb6e8dbbb45a58aff33fab5753accd1d1cb