Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2970ef1143f83c1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-06-18 23:51:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: d15ada5646b4ef060c5e47c7a8a0f581 SHA-1: 71251692d428d078c3f155ac38b9859569034d79 SHA-256: 2970ef1143f83c1a1c4f8c91aacd66bc5777f6699fccacb625ca272dada849da
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 http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2bd1324153---nekurakaja.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607881e8bfcaa---20133274966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/erfbkgbsev83dkvrgn6upv4mms/85264375321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc61f88f1c---16947812698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkdjd3nold8vag7fr08c388drg/58987063998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607641fa8e7ad---ludakufede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10014c62d45a82bb33e01e4b80da06de/gejilejesefukejadomis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/7364431318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b06ec81ea---79184786977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/38061373461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/660914871cc0669398cd4895dfcfa4ee/37307250016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210607145451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62f640032b7b83613a46ab14c163673e/kiwuxavavuxugeritefadaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809f0e5ffeb---xuxezakuzapolevalire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608397609fa9f---geludowewixibusowopak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e64abbd1cc---1076766796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/281345354018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/20224266136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=rectangular+steel+water+tank+design+example+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8364b614c---ranes.pdfIn 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6E2 5704 bytes
SHA-256: 3da205225a5ef8b0ba7d1048bcc932ccd4e6d58958a4864b7492728bd1c20b8b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA5A 10808 bytes
SHA-256: e7bfe386fb90f3e9278697aa4ee88029a7651736c8f1d1518784e970853a228c