Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2aa5c9da8fff48b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.9 KB Created: 2021-07-27 19:10:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: ceca5ce7ab744a36972fc98b0be5e7bb SHA-1: fe375b9e8066a6ca352a2346a2f8baee523e451b SHA-256: 2aa5c9da8fff48b3c0caee78c5f3f5f95a4d16ba7dbd78bee2f205cc42ac95a9
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 0.9970

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://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/dozifamikoxibuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9k47ic9opp1um4la4n0g8upjg2/nudulonixeluxixurog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827fa0b91a2---moloninujigenusebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/31207277844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bf8b2bc11cd---sakexitewupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/84201320151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1bb3e7ef6b---22494642908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210611_191341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bvtbt71asuahdut41v1ma8i17/susamipiwafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvtno263iop6f9c5cvopi1ie17/53096826533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b159241c6---wunevaxubadefamakoravepek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/5397334837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/45901482774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094157255170---27414757056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/suluvuwewemivovevexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stasta.com/userfiles/file/loxigininuwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/wovuwevivonanovutitid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/42451048759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607caf6447cf3---bikivuxilunovare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809a837ed75---59174741032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+galaxy+tablet+10.1+32gb+reviewPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF179 11548 bytes
SHA-256: 5f12ab1f3acd3e5f7abc1b50b8fac0d3f989de7dd82e794e19453282972754a2
font_01_sfnt_off00010d00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D00 16788 bytes
SHA-256: e2dba738634cd63fe4fae221f491e5406d3ad95f52784bd4479ecfe7222b27cd
font_02_sfnt_off000138d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000150e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150E4 16812 bytes
SHA-256: abeef58be3053f0d48f9eff48b951e8eeb40e034c0da68a6a5ed0d4ce5ba61b9