Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11e3cb8f8bf2ca90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-06-25 05:11:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: f45096a9654300aaffc09bd05b2d75de SHA-1: 7afb01ef07b43f769c122f356a1b2ab29e4176d9 SHA-256: 11e3cb8f8bf2ca90ac5ba4b2e128079524e172e9b8bd66838c5198fcfe2d7e8d
154 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 0.9431

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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
  • 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://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sg5j7rk73cofpjj0nqmldkivh5/56216128541.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/2876197236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96f78550d67b1ad99a2e2709ce79fb4f/koboki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iir013tqbg4kf6mg5qrtq0m5s1/32201956335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/65746142503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6085258190439a693914307f252e888/verip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saam.vn/images/content/file/68854818953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/vexetoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51a25d6edc---gilojogonuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/520850480dcffa5d902620ef585767fe/weworezumematerobuwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/pazaseroboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01a6dec5a71d305ea8fd0a9088188303/51032453331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c641e8b00adbc3797943f1acc719590/95821767942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5985ce858---33341650910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d502cc7d162---7071246631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosonhuath.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/tuwinagewedarerewoxojela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2891837b0169e6e79798bfc1de274973/lazanepigekomosumuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/24522455205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/38444550905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=nexus+vst+crackPDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FA 4920 bytes
SHA-256: 4b3409e15fbb3542d859c29c43f3b689d886a46226ec30b17f002c8b74b73644
font_01_sfnt_off000103d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D2 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 35c77562afbfbf0afce55238a5b7385d69d022abd6311740b20bc74019081e8a