Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e4557a72193b77d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-06-17 10:13:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: e5a337cfac8d1da1d8c0f66e39b42667 SHA-1: 31461647e453b69c4391fa5387f222845bbfd2fe SHA-256: 1e4557a72193b77dd4d31e2d9f335df9e67c24f6a62993a23c1a3d3c5b9242dd
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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=transfer+data+from+a+phone+with+broken+screen PDF link annotation
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/075992f610f94cf46f873cb0bd2d1917/71922457367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/puxebenadixarujeseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761674e644c---rubikamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/31466803543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82949cd8a2---89283069508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/benugefupararufobevubego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elturo.ru/img/upload/files/71386593486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a62840e577cded38bae541ca3f052ab0/45580214801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/814c0fa5803033f6dcabac4201c23f98/53742067437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/52088685990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/lagijejup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/650bb1d8af109ec7f11ea3f4549560a4/11859842439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/511d32433fc8cd4f82795b329a228f39/goxawoketinukuxikunimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c0c2da406b53181f3e97800f9550c40/79564819572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/wubagexofadabazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdaa534f773---zijaketijinefuz.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_off000106e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106E3 5608 bytes
SHA-256: f044d9bc466c1823af59065841dbcba1e3799a2bae13374b1f986042aba0be0d
font_01_sfnt_off000119d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119D5 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 48a062ae6d5e94fd60ffc4cd05b68b68b359c2864754aad9b1970b155f55dea0