Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 159a76a216b93c01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:02:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: c98687295e43d9c6154da79670b4c48f SHA-1: d04c1436ce02e313f7d68b4e110be7a92d58094a SHA-256: 159a76a216b93c0155d38acf0ab2f3145c8786ace31563e9aafd6f43652d282c
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 0.9965

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://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74f834bfe3f15ce2b931586dd8aba3d9/58971013991.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/64566698092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d0dcc136aa20904fd1bef0f14d150c7/39622277990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e7f1a4a34db8507e17a23aae238fab4/54272505509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec1118e64e---71904189704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/fawugowiwaxevipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/17808020645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96977002202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/66820044107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/24219196186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e6dea913d---93366365703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intrinhgia.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/jojulojokaremu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a318dcc3c00---gemesadidimawoxebifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/2711792929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/39486504540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edef4ddcabf---62361559794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/loruzifalesubiwarewit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labonguyenhoang.com/img-chamthi/files/4748552789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laptopserwis.com/app/webroot/media/files/jogixiposamepuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/baxezomaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalcoopadvisors.com/userfiles/files/nuvuxusopifituvemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4463ff7ec11a8ad85a14366fd4e720b9/31897368938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ed87012a729cfdde20bc4c33038aaf/mesefaxomasilunugikil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=les+composants+de+base+d%27un+ordinateur+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_off000118db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118DB 22864 bytes
SHA-256: 3250a3f22f5da8fad56781d854f78af06ee160fd8068fa320f5b4c12b8f6a2f9
font_01_sfnt_off00015256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15256 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 9ab5e50c55ce34a8522c157220060e56b7caea614537fc8d1133f873f4536196
font_02_sfnt_off00016b9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1