Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2eb3c5b66cadec43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-06-19 23:45:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 38b3fe14e38be83d4cef95cc5aff4dea SHA-1: 14317d2e6a4edabfabd801e5b01937d9708552c6 SHA-256: 2eb3c5b66cadec43c3beb0f9fbd4852cb6319bd4ac4f2f5385a7f232b4430ea3
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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=yoshis+snes+rom PDF link annotation
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/keqihv0vs9tid8ob4vnh1q0kc5/kinuvibazogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2629629cf5ecc56a188219cbae199eff/nomidasejujinefokebetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsmstlucia.com/atomicsteps/upload/userfiles/file/nelezikadinofixomoguzil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/92260915687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/riwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ef75ce058---7071640497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e504ca3672---39655037095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/movs3fk5cih8k836fst473tib6/dewukogomezuviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/36784876371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1t2u7fv9lhrh2cjvkbks8rp74f/78465942218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607537c50ef59---vonajikulezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/wejurabozuzijuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8621519440---88105735326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c73567dfc6---4757820819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA06 4644 bytes
SHA-256: 5846798460646549896268bec8e7d9b84ba31bfb3b686003d3d74f7b44133495
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9AA 11240 bytes
SHA-256: e419433d85ddab94667306c088f6b64b8c93d787faeee8e4a18a035f3f8d78fa
font_02_sfnt_off00011fe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE9 16092 bytes
SHA-256: e9fe716c2abc985b12a899a49d5539e4e8be1b56d50c083b30290d85a2a7c848