Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 154c281bf631c84a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-06-12 14:58:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: acb5ccad15c8638c1a7eb53154ba5fdc SHA-1: a87235c9c9117bbc434c37d749ff6d7399b9ce9f SHA-256: 154c281bf631c84a99ffaa312a824544417259e082648a237acbc7203c7e2e4c
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 0.9996

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nct+regular+mp3 PDF link annotation
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6fc596095912c6c25fa4b561095b138/15522618925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/deditojogefirepamabek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087bbf2ac682---tefinuberofawusoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608963e562dc9---4170317252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/vasolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bae26529c5f---mamuwefakimaseredo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd8b30798a---jogapibegewibajeguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tu5t7a5t1ebrj7b19mtee7gn48/25013393265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/76281487646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/99611843486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/xidarukubolaziloxotonumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acd93c56f0e575dff9bee93626fc6abe/9381946042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be2543684ed8fb0e7f9c691c681c5d05/7025135758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/54770287356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/diwakikurumubefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/zuded.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE21 3936 bytes
SHA-256: 357571da904e4fe57a2d7e6e3fa767a1fbc03032e88213785e1f25a8bf358f40
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC47 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 094ad35158f3f7288ca871fc5f52f855da02ad2d1dbf265c413c5204c79039c9
font_02_sfnt_off0000edf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDF6 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 23b1fdd00b1691ce0e33ab878a5b7259e27f2c3198cb07a1e6c3df864de63dc2
font_03_sfnt_off0001144c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1144C 21256 bytes
SHA-256: 0cb4a6db756f6b6b527e6791bbca5798a80a1b75b1c39d9bb2ec05eef20e562b