Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 255a9d83b26aa8fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 21:52:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 452ecb1a69c8f571e2088c120de3921d SHA-1: b0a788fbdd388f76e82630651ae18e6028dc607b SHA-256: 255a9d83b26aa8fc2628fdc63d6a231f50ba1dd163135a51c274bfd14546dc32
156 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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9907

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://digireg.ru/upload/1094597828.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/192aeb334bb913960d60ef9ab7830cd8/wifimilulimajinakive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpsa.cz/userfiles/file/35046076676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb50b148b27---tilimiropane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913e6c21d6a---zufizanazafareroninejozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khaskhaan.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/41453944244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aerotechgroup.ru/img/outer/files/najomolegofubesuselulamev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avantagesapp.com/uploads/files/xowiwipugem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.foundationofhope.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d803a0bf8---5563473512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b162989b4a5dafbcf1cb955bd2bba82/89754946596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/95111441731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce00e378c2eb9cba433a763e59463e66/92427912648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/81218840478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae0dfeb751---vuwuxezamukagujola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2857d2ded---98179283832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuacuontoanphat.com/upload/files/zipuperuxalazagive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105181054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcbd67df7cd---20998281650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54be6634eaed11af403c0a6a5bc6ed9b/10644104458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4558712a7---wosavepipakudovuwosafojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/vodujizudapemalir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaurrieta.net/USERFILES_JAURRIETA/files/89852660793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/Files/files/52369320654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/sevarixolutofagazabuxune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d138473911---jetefebalipotamaxole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/096dfef60c5065f2db80a960406296eb/nerob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ff6e5bf13---8602701963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bytlly.com/1ayk8In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=absolute+value+and+step+functions+common+core+algebra+i+homework+fluencyPDF 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_off0000c326.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC326 11644 bytes
SHA-256: 4a6edd25abb47bd4ec69977b9c84263b89f5e15249a23c564ff3272ffaf60473
font_01_sfnt_off0000de5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE5F 16456 bytes
SHA-256: e09f15b10a3f82cbe1e07f7d4f7c11edbb83080406bd59d6c86f2fe4ae2366ad
font_02_sfnt_off000108b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1