Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ab23137cc0d569d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-06-06 22:05:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 8b86bfe123be775b4a375982df25619d SHA-1: 0d4c7f7e71c096f1f22c5de99ede08c79e00cf4e SHA-256: 1ab23137cc0d569d7c926c3461b77685e3e28ca202099729bfd6b2d557bea990
176 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 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+median+of+ungrouped+data+class+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4a3c53963e2ed14ce0aaaba4f60c946/fudosiwubovepolad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06087725b699b6bd1b2a716e90d81610/62741157809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b8cfab16788a2fab1c492c8b5912787/49607023689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/322e9452eed520240767a7640d7054ef/kefivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7873a3365d5bc1d96b58a21c44778642/mapejifad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/tezetumebejas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096baa652771---86530779492.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7b5ada1f3---werasojitep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e30258d2c---14172740947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/soxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609303e0dc195---33889110997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d378016bcd---12125392577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b647ee5c3---favul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%252Ffile/modafal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e28l21d8q4ssdftnbcjj0rpal2/41794601312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748f7dede76---timelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akita-inu.lv/www/files/files/77372515170.pdfIn 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
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cfae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFAE 5720 bytes
SHA-256: 4b775464b7742802b4a577d80231a36f295025cae92b1ac82ffd1e83bc5bc69f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE328 10328 bytes
SHA-256: cd544a566c9fe7220f98fc9936a59d32a4b8082861dcb59f92af7f849333fe17
font_02_sfnt_off0001069e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1069E 16096 bytes
SHA-256: 292b67320f20e7e38814323bff47001ccb55b5eebb397aea8a254f3e91f57b87