Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 252880d47e89a177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-06-11 07:52:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 03a5b7ef804c4f2156eefb0ca82eddf8 SHA-1: e970e2d85232acaa186d72737e884a56b43f43d3 SHA-256: 252880d47e89a177c1a336c18ddff62db51bc41e759209d44f187afa5968e864
196 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 0.9996

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quadratic+equation+project+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/2286604430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.irrv.org/uploads/files/36231776702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210601_032629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736ff0b34d4---wutopopinuraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdae1c02a1a---solafofupenogumizomox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aef815c8f24de398b985063340003878/monopasunilinanapatat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//5216215931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ff97ddbc1---dedobam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8589136f6f40ec540c6df139106483f/rikitopikitazutubedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f9ef2d2f2---68132944191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f12fe7b5a2---34992437123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/tetujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71c8db2983---rijijamuzovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/923831932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/tevilifob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609984bea2476---retudezuminuzedepenexepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096919bef5e2---77838868932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doublehappyvstheinfinitesadness.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2b5545ad2---jefoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010559.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10559 10044 bytes
SHA-256: 1126302a3f2ea62857402305d7681609f998cb19a761391dccd19fed7b1372d0
font_01_sfnt_off000120d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D9 2100 bytes
SHA-256: 29238b8cb209d6081e38892f10d29d253a0c7aa7b68d3159a9fb3be4e876369c
font_02_sfnt_off00012a6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A6F 5204 bytes
SHA-256: c49c7ac8c5fcea4c311aae5af5d6bcd62994a5478c217f5d33bba093928b7b35
font_03_sfnt_off00013c3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C3B 11980 bytes
SHA-256: 47365c3295c305769a2f4eef047a9913f561e89aab41b5e6a51c8cb706e609ed