Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 178c634072a3fc69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-08-21 04:46:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 1244e1a0f848a514ce334459a003d796 SHA-1: 5cc417c608aeac59b5198de1f4c8b117d498ea0f SHA-256: 178c634072a3fc69d255b7cb53ecc047e52580ffdae6ad644b0daee7c4230572
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 0.9995

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763e0d672aa---76927730654.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1676e312b---48054562285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/112650693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f004a63b4e3---50111125442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kp50cvj298qjqgu8k18o5anhs6/tuvego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file///sawedelezugalinodufefuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd35e0b153c---xegalebofosewidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/japifaxegorobisijorurajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcae5103cef88b0fc2b578b529081184/3793404987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6a20fd2d7199b9745f838af478f04bc/94916081801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafegreenwichvillage.com/uploads/files/gupebiwepivepanawiverak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/roxokodasexixitugeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/divuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b040635296---tilikobux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanhaochemical.com/uploads/files/85248033199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supportsystemsvainc.com/home/ssvi/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/298584f038e3d497f3bd41915a201b4e/jopaxokasuwozikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viveironativodevicosa.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fudowoxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/pazopopovebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geojeoceanhotel.com/userfiles/file/20210723183228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/87917457335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatphathuy.com/Images_upload/files/64201831969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=kali+linux+tutorialPDF 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_off0000e3a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A4 17336 bytes
SHA-256: e933fded6e497f8a87b36edc98097099fa6b57273ce8114156554f944390d4de
font_01_sfnt_off000110b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B3 9996 bytes
SHA-256: ef4a39d824c06309aab4a94fe9c8c4c62bba2023cd334672b882dc41302d3d3e
font_02_sfnt_off000126f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1