Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 159b9955ba7de445…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 04:14:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 06e8609fd3c17e5558a975f2d2929778 SHA-1: 3efa143ec83119e7159eb8f066603b509fcaad88 SHA-256: 159b9955ba7de4456867e21cfa613a1491061a39852051936b8eaf6c5da1c43c
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 0.9994

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=active+and+passive+voice+ppt+presentation PDF link annotation
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9df167d923---32404861002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/rafuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afde26afea3---gugamilesililinuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39326289284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ipkameralari24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a424d02e100---naluwixarilajaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb6da49d304---3499653677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluefield1966.com/clients/26642/File/19059281406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93bf2e829a---jotuzosedali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3m69iu63qe05kksh1dhv99ibvg/22375831347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/47100619894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d73bedf10---5320332877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mim2010.ru/userfiles/file/57280176957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd7f229bc7---luzawimiwobefavinegotexan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e508ed37fc---mosinigexubovezizumiwimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900e1959a93---38357106765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgbt.us/pds/userfiles/files/vebaxotimopekiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3D 6440 bytes
SHA-256: a606a6dede3b99472d2ac97761204782646b5f75106b48d1abccbe9a99ca9a4c
font_01_sfnt_off00010b21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B21 1684 bytes
SHA-256: 4d3fb6748bdbfc0676bbc246a341b567ec3707c335db72ae26270b639488ab50
font_02_sfnt_off00011385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11385 5084 bytes
SHA-256: 7f0d6ec25d206d3cc3d0c041b69486f660b2ecca38d4dcb76af3d58f45dc5f8a
font_03_sfnt_off000124e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124E6 12392 bytes
SHA-256: 98bb5faf15f4bbfa86f65faf0cb4a5179702752760ce2e94a976975e5f2d5bdc
font_04_sfnt_off00014efa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EFA 16656 bytes
SHA-256: 627f076683c6530d4b88b4dc60f83342dfe77cb1aa77f85747891000fd22d44d