Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a77970e983fd992…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:27:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e0c5d10e553ff3d9559241e406dc48d7 SHA-1: 71b4079c6b98f6ec3132a450812e916a8a85569c SHA-256: 0a77970e983fd992f3d5edfc9917b0d517b50cf9fb603127549fcdf80918d8fd
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 0.9960

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 http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609745bfa6f29---33972736344.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c7aa1fe26---16575878749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusheng168.com/uploadfiles/20210701212612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866dc9b3d4e---62839177429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094652fb7fa1---komukum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lifukuguninazubaguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novamakine.com/upload/ckfinder/files/65324103017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/pomefoloji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaskunstcentrum.nl/images/file/ruxulajarameje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d21bcc620af5305d5768409ac569cf2b/63658667128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e35e41f2d---63003097654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab4f57a434b---povopakojodede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d6fd1f699---73588011441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/52758218440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946eaf2c9fd---54400548362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://museuminiaturesbesalu.com/files/fugavemadep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6917324d802a82f6d241bc7cbf5572f5/tenasolikujuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a716e4392d1---biwiposamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/sejabuwemijozikutuluxanit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinebuzz.be/uploads/userfiles/files/39321943308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161197d687e2c0---43020709681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agape4u.org/userfiles/file/tutijodubisuvuxasumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/84381750109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=evaluating+sources+worksheet+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000d9e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E7 17668 bytes
SHA-256: a605e9a1886e4f674bb376ca354262f965418eed315753553bc135d8c8934386
font_01_sfnt_off000106da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106DA 10952 bytes
SHA-256: eeb48e987bba7969e8241217c7bb37fc06304b49cfd7a7eb3ad78407987d30bc
font_02_sfnt_off00012047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12047 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1