Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 281a9c768c56f66a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-06-23 03:23:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: a3d2540bad15d8a85baa6d643d9b69fd SHA-1: 10febbced52dde9646b6a89963371291430fb377 SHA-256: 281a9c768c56f66af3e255041cda7dbc6d0934eb5683e746b06bf217d203b06e
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-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.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=majid+jordan+the+space+between+zip PDF link annotation
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a6db9aaf2---giniwejebada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/bumipav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59c20b4f3bf635e522b44c7578f5dbb9/29416645211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/93367440655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a841ab17fe4---nawexamegukiliwezeluzuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a508c59605a---detevanezekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/zewugugowogegobeluvikewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seattleteriyaki3.com/uploads/files/79893218852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/gadonejenanutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7c09cea2dc53a775d9fd046d449640f/wexupapokoxiduvopasijonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizaviation.com/uploads/files/turefupiwemapoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608340ec11873---kimafezafefaxapopalobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5361d63fc3fa12f44feb0b5292a8953/lifubiwujizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/sizoxogitokemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e524983c3---kelaxuzurikal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0400ff0bee9faedbafe042d181556ccc/korol.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c424.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC424 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 1b0ddad0acb3c749cf806719061c8b4890f7bf5803316815d165f4888a823d1a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6E5 1888 bytes
SHA-256: fb837d8d2e7b6ff876074993d1faa48c00f8652074d5e7b79bdb67b3eeb562c2
font_02_sfnt_off0000dff8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF8 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 1947d231a30b03c2ca83ca55c0f539d4e6a8e3adac72ebcae7e9182282296937