Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 163630a2a3ef5e06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.2 KB Created: 2021-08-06 22:35:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 431901e31113edc8fbdac6d808fcd4e6 SHA-1: 70754b0d1ec18235bf01faaf3aa3578d90014c8d SHA-256: 163630a2a3ef5e06dfbc3cb8e14d5e229bcd2f477e4a8d8895dfc6982983345e
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 0.9889

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 http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210705123001.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/65925906776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecc4cb75201e26ee1f9b4dbda2c2d6bc/13677930252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/bosuzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulongvungtau.com/media/ftp/file/78035640078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e0d9c4729c128b01b6f8354e9a72367/69519357608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uelzecht.lu/userfiles/files/35876506558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streetnn.ru/data/upload/ck/files/pazizexewufege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/237b78eee1290ec71b09cb4236f739b4/mobumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd0dd08e968eebccf46a9b2955592652/gusimumibojumegaxagiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7n347hi5th9q1l32lrniom7va5/99882891352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbanoilandgas.com/file/files/wunesol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edv-denk.com/userfiles/file/50882869477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072889c63576---18429898885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e155ab5e0ab09bf802a83c97f9836e41/8500226944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d774e3ac4b3---59859948520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0ae72ce21---68511863223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/887e5ea5880150c5d1ffd903f25b7f74/28178465862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tozulaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aca38c50fc5bab71a83a88ea6de56ba/xezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/42682062212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/81914928546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jokilaaksonratsastajat.fi/file/nopudamaguwasapigate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4a6e79c9863cbe5b0fd99697d0c2e28/98831492697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tysons-cafe.com/uploads/files/kijejexarajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0351.com/userfiles/file/20210621225849_gfzhfr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=sram+guide+r+vs+shimano+deore+xtPDF 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_off00012192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12192 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000139a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139A9 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 4e6ed673b3aeff46cd8988a5e6c95738be065f5394507d5d7eaca61d7c335069
font_02_sfnt_off000152d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152D4 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 82050d4d87e92e766c67fee0ed76e4c82a083a10860b8102ba37e1be749d8ff0