Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e4c501d390dc45c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:52:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: c230d8f27806e9efc31f12bf5eeede33 SHA-1: 7b1df90d9af588fc63f12a5305a23ccf5e86bbd5 SHA-256: 1e4c501d390dc45c807dad4b5cc75aed7ae44f9e85084353b0492a11b8fffa9c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=network+analysis+techniques+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://china-spec.ru/userfiles/file/90704937027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b9be5f588---65935997700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/52867127527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/guvabimopuzewekegero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetounificado.com/uploads/files/rivorunobaxewupopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e389a1e9a---66456944118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/86649116813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d349ecffa6---23586770089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8efbf72173---99592332094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitimohammadilakhimpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25404794948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamasataccessories.com/userfiles/files/fodaxojojaboxidufuzagizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/43021080668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071407aa944d---konejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2338b5e678b8ec6f0bdb09ec622361d7/tativ.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9a3ti9mjqrjqgba7cmh1p3sb7/muzobujowikil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a2da162531be0db28aed0bc0e8e9afd/71407053086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otibj3n81l7e91drfvumcfu9pr/kodafetis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/837b79b4affba33c33a5261aa8e89d95/ditil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d3a9d73e547568096ace1f120e436fc/velivebevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o43fkn4l61q9ep7l3667e7suf3/7822786660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unternehmensberatung-hegenbarth.de/userfiles/file/dasixeniwizazukorasezugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/kajib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d196a7d6b---mixafoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210818_D8F6477F1278447E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosritual.su/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dagoloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vienkiemis.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/xonadajololo.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e6fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6FB 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 842ac7cfc9ff2c1b9abc6f5c33e8c3b576a9f54db524ff27e54001463f2f6387
font_01_sfnt_off0001011e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1011E 17132 bytes
SHA-256: bd01f99c80a9fabec3fc41511f198759689b592edc1223d4574b641628a1f4e9
font_02_sfnt_off00012d93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1