Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 217fb3e0fabab493…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 17:16:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 5c4e1c90c8d2812dae96d5cd497b66e0 SHA-1: ad74eb020486723bd8a6ba78b6f078e78362afce SHA-256: 217fb3e0fabab4935e0c1518718e7f0e80862e3bb46626865b469e665da88871
204 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, routes users through malicious redirector infrastructure and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/44149018954.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/75699975124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613737767a495---86547576236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/fuwafibufetex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://australiancaravancentre.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vudavumeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamcatcherltd.com/userfiles/file/vivajakaxakadedanujemil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snieznik.pl/userfiles/file/42866476300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tims.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14426395079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optical-axis.com/uploads/files/202109010048294426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/mufogixusesunetigatew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a9bdb939f46870daf8671c5e889aa0e/tidadijudovode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.com/files/95533154334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344b4a20a9f---59178549863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urdu-hadith.com/survey/userfiles/files/84786163822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613219f4e1494---fupuromalarivowebotitaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c156e2a86---98373134762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbamedica.org/userfiles/files/42043061884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chixue.com/uploadfile/file/20210904054540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laihoawedding.com/app/webroot/upload/files/14799489472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phr4u.com/files/16986372604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.performhabitat.fr/bundles/astadmin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sifipuwasasekupozoxuropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/bugosojosarebokama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefencedocumentary.ca/adminfiles/file/ludek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210909020230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+recover+forgotten+phone+passwordPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000da20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA20 18112 bytes
SHA-256: c0e20ff255f76c61bcfdc4b482856ec1d4317c141afd637d3017549141514ea8
font_01_sfnt_off00010890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10890 10904 bytes
SHA-256: d6046a2b53d0fc597e9e69784f4ac1a5e00cac1aef040243628cf9c01465d871
font_02_sfnt_off00012198.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12198 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1