Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11636a2016d5b37f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:01:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: b8e4e65bf7a0b1e5f1419b030bb9ff60 SHA-1: 9a204befa510583fb1efb8767340bcd40afc3021 SHA-256: 11636a2016d5b37f4baa811b3eb3595cbbea780ba5a6dc44fceab882e7be3ca9
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 0.9953

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://pemaboutiquehotel.com/assets/userfiles/files/givijaxudebijuwakezuwonev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72461602ec---2803088251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/74380556941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hicoweld.com/shop/fck_file/file/67031910993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d23e60aba5e6d692e17ee95cbd87b1b/82447100611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89873056298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134032545890---73478396361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/64118734531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88412351696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac68454ce7---10015155914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/748361890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clickvay.com/upload/files/xukisizapor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847f6a77fb3---73871763221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spy-military-labs.com/userfiles/file/10876115356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aacc21c1f34---87719657050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efb3c654f6---86795350011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607735cc406ae---67799862079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d99e8f6db1b---2240754452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/garawiziridibosozufelif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreejians.com/userfiles/file/soxupiwekasexumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilot-nav.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57048160204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cjigqh03tjgi4hg4peggo1ql5/logubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e0ff55f35---1173699815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=que+es+vinculacion+estrategica+pdfPDF 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_off0000ca88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA88 17600 bytes
SHA-256: 90c2941390f042a8df74fe81d0e96d7b4bd37a4b762be2e43c1a7811da247df3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f608.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF608 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 48ae9f68e9047740256c16c4963c5f59cdff5633a5c08679450eaf523cfad97f
font_02_sfnt_off00010fbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1