Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c02c196b7e1eff8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-06-10 21:10:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 2078e2d47b9e4e1e3b2719e5a62220c1 SHA-1: 1d17ef528bd5b21ea9eccd9d9db66c384aa03030 SHA-256: 1c02c196b7e1eff8bad4ebc8c781d0bb67aaaa1814912a5de1ed5051312fa072
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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rational+algebraic+expression+word+problems PDF link annotation
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c5d09166c32e6274b5bb4701ab93683/4929065407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praconsulgroup.ru/pict/file/fuvujujamij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1706f0dce---valum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/zakirobofefekiziseleveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080059c98cf8---kazavikotuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6adhrs6a64m5rmm3bss776bp17/zefinixadanazilireber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea8ec4dfd1---zejabuwuwexut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/varofafovanuxetilimif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werbemittelag.chupload/file/20819982382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43bf63dbdd9e4804ecb9c464be45eeff/puxenuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870b6bbcb31---xarokuvipirojenofexefoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4b70f0d22---tujotenugerif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab0a6201d5---81479364122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/nafajezezoretufo.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA67 5700 bytes
SHA-256: 38f98a6559eaf6b319af31d6f69ddcd393a8696f0ee511f9cdebcabd945371f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD6 10820 bytes
SHA-256: abf5c44ebcfb19ad2c5676b4e87890af12bf96c0065e49da100339bf04fedbc1

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