Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 299d6610594920f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-07-22 08:05:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: d08c0e6a47f74d943e5b0745b668a1e9 SHA-1: 1de4cbd64832c89d9c07957fc88195ea44f36a9b SHA-256: 299d6610594920f819c5bc30e183540fdf4a0879249ddcf23ad01b45d636f026
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. 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 0.9989

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adde7c310c1---77034260499.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0623a6c2f8db67ed21a456a518ce672b/lavidopirepajegozuzenaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb297254d94---14106613508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://summit-christian-academy.net/scauserfiles/files/ridamuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719985aca65---61940989786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.org/contents//files/ludujetifojebujuvopidur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713d0a6ef6b---10396192858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sostrevalli.it/userfiles/files/4987734541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcihk.com/userfiles/27326195178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balade-pierry.fr/userfiles/file/rutipepudegaxaxisago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a918eea2c40---mijubapubivamujapob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d04d6edc7---67152704218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ars5v24l44mh3b5al8skgftb07/7180346714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/joer53dvcfmb1u88hupfko7mp4/jisipugonet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/31284292761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/pejazujebexirutewoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/36354628439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/namapuzoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitajeans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57926548909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongnuocdenhat.com/upload/files/rofonagedidixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210721_41AB7413EE878CFB.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhdljz.com/userfiles/file/1626122164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/wonarabobebedogero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=chord+canon+rock+acousticPDF 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_off0000d32f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD32F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB41 17560 bytes
SHA-256: a83a395846b19ff6158b4adc4f61994291ebea440450731ba6fb454edc92bed7
font_02_sfnt_off0001195f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1195F 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 2dbacae55984071f6ab1a41375711b40e8e0ffabf716fcc8c32f480781bb9851