Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fc6a587b5b66210…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-06-14 03:17:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: d0b4fa534c68257ac59a7df902c7ee6f SHA-1: 0d5fbfb2dee66dcd67672d6b013d188ac24185d3 SHA-256: 1fc6a587b5b662108d2ab2b013686bb14c6b9bb3735506b66911c84f8df36a7d
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-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+mobile+lite+apk+obb+file PDF link annotation
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608631dfe2cfe---87409174600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6906e286a8---1741122376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/57438236737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th1jeodjj5ickqctorvijfpeqn/20694022886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/zuvewekufovijogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b710a3455---vuxaletalarodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregor-biffiger.ch/userfiles/file/54427229897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/52698095851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/40843813442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a621ecb736693f83ae4d041d31db8301/65850613910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d64f704338---fatifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be89cf16eac---pujanifulalekovomidazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lid3iad6m3q2n8ld6jeqho9epg/327306402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3911b411debadf55226b377d35f1449d/18651077135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephlillianmorrisfamily.com/clients/59960/File/28417770844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfjvgmb0jd19v4e53mboebr8cd/16761097498.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
    • 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_off0000ea08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA08 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 86f6796ab062192b9152534de28df8dd38ccb45e5b694ebba92e15591a75535d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8C 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 8fb9bfff0bd27bb1db80e8cffe85e31dadc1009892bf4d9809276bd53f733031
font_02_sfnt_off00012146.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12146 16312 bytes
SHA-256: bf8f9ece8d9d74ce2d7a98a07ee1bb8f4056faf702b3b1702118181e85f1b939