Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c20fcef0d8e56a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:05:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: d7d766e85c70891822b9656ce43bda8a SHA-1: 19902d9ea4fbb0baec148c2c6864fcf294d335aa SHA-256: 0c20fcef0d8e56a565a634c02f4dc847a724cb1a071370e970e4e06fefb6e39d
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 0.9981

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=worksheet+on+gerunds+and+infinitives PDF link annotation
    • http://csc0731.com/userfiles/file/20210722054806_3n8df9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atsqfubbucn745a9gmkiuan4t8/95758306592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayatrosetta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4dd8l2hp6e5vgjskjvb9tc1c3/81989173906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981eeb92ddd---98747373452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/11102145059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae03b0cbecf---45369434346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paseppe.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20600122705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9182e011ea---73261891045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easy2ticket.com/upload/files/ravelilaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegneriarossi.it/userfiles/files/90167287297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tt-ural.su/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66631054183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentromedico.es/files/galeria/files/87504680654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varadimasszazs.hu/uploads/files/sogalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phr4u.com/files/42914811497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ps-chiptuning.hu/userfiles/files/22702678187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/79724196616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2271e31778cba4248a64a1d40ec9a6e6/57555600334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/1564536633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clerus.hu/files/file/82463053718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a253b268c---tetibujojirufogogarilit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5345b9510---ruterut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f2871124e---gifikoz.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_off0000d3ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3BA 10840 bytes
SHA-256: d9a92b49053c91cb8862eb565338189c9915d52f9c7e9620c3f2d48b47de289b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC91 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 41fcf0db93adcfbc3d2450a12d2b9d7f54df1a97b4f11b6ca78a9d5cd5ab8ae1
font_02_sfnt_off00011925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11925 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1