Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 280412136af38ceb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:00:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 9857f929207ac05948eb58243027f615 SHA-1: 93aca7ffaa7233f4df0b9b7f10847d0066f5802f SHA-256: 280412136af38cebceb2e2750c768fc77368a4feee194475ff0f9dcca8b2796d
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 0.9977

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 http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/3318898574.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/30666349642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hr-serdahel.hu/images/file/nedeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/40439134475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36f8c195d091cac2ea46757edee5d933/sixotabeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa08748eba---22454337257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210502113115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c33b51cf4f4b3067d9082ad0898ab488/95028657498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.provinces.cmcgeneralate.org/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb850ae19f---kadenafoxovuvowaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvpa70otf6864unur42l95lgf3/tunobeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c948221a4eb---60902884482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenxuanhuong.com/upload/files/jiwurigopugumaxadewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3de439d73608975c5798938933e2bbdd/77151645031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/19361970486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c41a7a70182---55289735277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56bc00c5bd1330ced9f9a61c32f6f4d9/30318466308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/joh4e6o3e7duiuh0eghb086193/tidizatuvexopoliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/28648513121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/45420858881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/polimebaxalidokusadanifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebovsem.ru/app/webroot/files/files/56448333858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://around-sicily.net/userfiles/file/56493266054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=mental+math+worksheets+grade+10PDF 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_off0000dbf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBF2 18064 bytes
SHA-256: 5b4061dc339c58aef416b133e03237c2b80c79b887e27206a5eb41fb2c8a1bce
font_01_sfnt_off00010b0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012322.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12322 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 8b154f604a3dc2faa0a118e55bc8c6da0662cf644c545d775da2321338c61737