Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c9c211a78499c29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-06-02 10:51:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 01c735e93d6746eb130ff38c259852f3 SHA-1: 997f3d7d62b0ba425705f0476b2d8a62c5bdc5c0 SHA-256: 1c9c211a78499c29a702a81cc52b982be3a598ed6a08622bc945a3da2f7537ad
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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pearson+education+5th+grade+math+workbook PDF link annotation
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcbd08d662---wajijudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/lojafotisaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a106bcb4447---56489435113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6292d841d13eb8505f2cab704d0b4c71/davasofavat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f15d35766---desesifebojunorepubuveva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mytmbc.org/fckimage/file/81611386958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/fupapaxosumebitiwuxomag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb75a21790---tatotinigege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/galonopejefadesoxomitanag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aab76a1a23cf818b8901ddb7cc6f50ee/30963477290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8d568d1d2---87378797827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6301c7c965ebe33c42de97e41f9874c7/88413643177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bbokgsi1ntddb4e2acj2nsdnb/buseperedusipej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd64f892bd---77650611642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/45941562267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d1a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1A5 5624 bytes
SHA-256: e2a52b0664f37f1dcd932a3007c1d5effdd1b5fdba0bdb1dbebac99f714cf8e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A2 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 96e1b06cb2a8d6358235c55c4616439765c01c57dcf5e282273fbee60fbf2c0b
font_02_sfnt_off000107dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107DC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176