Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2af6857fdd9ae113…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 10:23:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: c4dd067bf506f5b7a2efc5f68ab293ab SHA-1: 6e75e7478341a150b8d2ed3ebb5d0fb9e4047cbb SHA-256: 2af6857fdd9ae113716bc391c2ef557e6154d96c7945ada95461a34518c1d782
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 0.9996

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+first+course+in+atmospheric+thermodynamics+petty+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://bostonmentors.com/userfiles/file/sulojifigujusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c09ee8c2693079cb2449b6b6013853a6/23664549951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.com/contents//files/kivimizakojejoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jt3or5j7l7dtt87ubcqfagg83g/sajojikurafar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4taeqedvcbi7s9ike1ft0n0he1/54948558729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beklb8j58e5k1scji684rja4o3/gofufozodupujomelox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motorlustor.net/userfiles/file/tupifejuposopuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/vukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca8b515bd6---goreguxemopupolexodazapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf8815d3a0---91578017106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyosserspneed.com/userfiles/files/9018517143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bacviettech.vn/userfiles/file/15449497723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/zoweruxezadogematem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/74530945402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c67d56b4dc---52899092257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n6urj081jfkekh7ea71scnebo9/22912804568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC300 5676 bytes
SHA-256: 865beddfea29de24ccc6ff6f84048ec6c849d70576a2b4cfbc1338410bebe441
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6A6 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 1bda8472bfb8ab167a271987323c9e898fcdc757c676156e5ac1928b9d7cdc19
font_02_sfnt_off0000e899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE899 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 59e84ef7521f44439af128e0c233d3734c4d820a9a627257372eaea267f9b518
font_03_sfnt_off00010d7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D7A 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 3dd6252bb62cdcc21e2b76bdeb68ba6c8db9c2d08edae94764e010183c5b1848
font_04_sfnt_off00012230.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12230 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3