Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 165498c9c6701545…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-08-15 22:28:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 55448dc855147f0a146d1dc3c18439ca SHA-1: 6fd644c7a83cb3c517abf63f6cf033707101e062 SHA-256: 165498c9c67015454588b991adaca2856a0d9a22e8af1ef1c03d6ab857f19898
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 0.9978

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://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/38866467979.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://currycornersugarland.com/admin/images/file/bibegujapoxojide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c7b2168b43607bc5170ebce3a2044c8/jemodefevazig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sisoribogezes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086870c4546b---48826799043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a56b4ceccc---nowezodogofazedenobux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sentinels.ro/userfiles/file/padobadidetijenije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/csm3v99tp7n2gpps8hfcriqfbg/sunezosedajujiwuluwunobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b452bcd099b---79617011471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec59d49fa6---17037390909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krt14tan4bo7nns4ah05bd4lhg/tomokipugepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produsedecopii.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/27512704491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795e944279b---zobowakonowagusigaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d85493e6f---35614775448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e02ba1be6---92042574803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/dowiburewudaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61kasbr9i4m6daeovdngrddno6/xelum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8928bb533b---veleruwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townsendrogersfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/91/912616e09393d205379ff76530a10a1f/File/24873481676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fec451d1d3---89424433724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tverzhilservis.ru/foktver.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25852192276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089bec796aae---gexumizowet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stauarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/wugavuninip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sadrainsurance.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/wudonojilupexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=chapter+1+ratios+and+proportional+reasoning+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000ce82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE82 16204 bytes
SHA-256: cd0d81955fb8879316d0ad89ed8940779c584a0fb2385b397a879e9237395ab8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f832.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF832 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 0548bfd5d0081cddfd667db942d080d97b3771d0dee185d417c841956df73e46
font_02_sfnt_off000111c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1