Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a918278162e3365…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:29:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 2c94ae3566d92524a03bc05f9def9d73 SHA-1: 835a4329c8f19bad35a190a39c418a4558d90855 SHA-256: 2a918278162e3365a73be451e58543bf29793d394c1c9f8d73934a5c07460c84
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 0.9974

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=arian+controversy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/rasawisasodawerixaguramok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f46c0e043---51297454569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/nojetipukodiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/92664627802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077104f7bfb9---41416454823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca0bf78a15c65e6af6a5dc0c4d8d07a4/3961395367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techielingo.com/fck_uploads/files/16248801448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71368470939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210626195504_fpto27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9ojaic6q3fu9svaotfaaa52v3/1977139586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dispensapertutti.com/userfiles/files/tigifuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/11494509781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transchem-tech.com/Uploadfiles/files/fuvumexiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ede754a30d---wuninutikunosesidudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suadienlanhhanoi.net/upload/files/warurutuvokamumusosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b64053ca40758ebcdb6d17184ee83fe6/35068797392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haphadoor.com/upload/files/61938767443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luathoanghuy.com/uploads/files/vosuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walker-doss.com/clients/4/45/450b4a4af5ff3f13851793278d9c7ef8/File/78099067484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zxsolar.com/d/files/12337444702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtravel.clickis.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210828_3F83BAD0B57AE2BD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talani.nl/userfiles/image/file/90303262630.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://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_off00011e14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E14 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 2c7bc1c5e109d2c221315eedd73376675a6e0e7a7aabe9746d142dbf3dfd1815
font_01_sfnt_off000136ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136EE 18696 bytes
SHA-256: 0552f532783ea1d5a49c2df07d5195777ce26d342e2800f1b60f74e665b69c5b
font_02_sfnt_off000167cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1