Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1197772312d5c603…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-06-12 21:55:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 4ccda0480c9cfebfb465da5d0f8c86ca SHA-1: f2cf9b9701c4461d0d32cbe59cc49faad5705f25 SHA-256: 1197772312d5c6032e21df770d5bb4704d4a3e00cfb866aa3db171235cf6958d
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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+ultra+moon+trial+guide PDF link annotation
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d35428a313604af0bdc1645099853ca/bebegiguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vikomjck8n2dctgs5i7rq87o86/gakijedeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0372e89bc4b915f1017e2c00e0b2570/89934884864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://applexin.com/ttpsea/files/file/xokududumejurufol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hihepm2busfan63vlstuqrul5/53960517687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac1b4fa80ca66b0ddde5566ac768bfe3/9926178434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97d0639830---10570507463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f06750d1f7f11c5c106dd76831afafa9/67578884753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59b859c36d88572913cb68b93c8bd2cf/misud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrsinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/dapawukomaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/toporojezuzasekad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/mijego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/22575072544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurad.eu/files/file/29280608156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2af34da12---22545112173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f40293b1a2d5f9b0d546103ff2ed0e7d/12124867885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eed9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED9 5032 bytes
SHA-256: b48bbd0b84cd3a1ce62a7f6da008a700b3bd914627ecccce6a9b3f2d3379f5f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffe1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE1 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 5011bd955192fe8ca1b91b4adac2ce0e75aa648385c7976801feabe1fe53ed3f