Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1aee5f63bd6dc4a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-06-17 20:02:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 385501b7f8c7747ccec86599bc7c3ccc SHA-1: b2e732acff525d5588e2164e48a59957fb4f5a97 SHA-256: 1aee5f63bd6dc4a454d27c1df70c34e86aba7c95caefbf442aca7ce1af55133e
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 0.9998

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://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab62e624978---fiwuna.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0i56lnpgml1ssk1lkviqjrf381/18188601968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c69322d8e5---xodixak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d001d8a6f---fijeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1da58f264ee7eff68368aee4863b6d3/towuxevitila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scheiden-maassluis.nl/uploads//file/86657336084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66mv8d990k5khbkr71t57gm10g/liposululo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kledingindex.nl/images/uploads/80036517570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jajikonodobajefoxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/202163224527857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5637397cf9b4d1277848f4fbcc0107cb/vemubibipunojegotobolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a883cdcfe35---61906543090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7fc9c6fa28---49097868179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607415d07cb97---4284232414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjcugdcgiogfqd49ldqbv5vsp5/19352792521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=guess+the+emoji+49PDF 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://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_off0000f231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF231 4940 bytes
SHA-256: 9822491c5a997e0d74622eaae05f27d77f8f2fbde6bb0a5b423a3d7ba9fd9f8a
font_01_sfnt_off000102e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E7 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 048d67fcc151f99952cc40269df66fcf0cf0b089f01c3a8638ce64b225740562
font_02_sfnt_off000127d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127D2 16648 bytes
SHA-256: adfed7caacb8b3dea84e8017144e39a61a8f56fa64757001bacdeb1508980af5