Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 324fa0af402c40c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:06:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 2e8d009acd1dac5f048f5dc94f8585ac SHA-1: c5ce6518bd74765c672f7dbb630b40da667646ff SHA-256: 324fa0af402c40c5c3f7969b3b76f30fe6e7c61472b7fce7569c4bf0148164ba
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 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2359f0ba6b0ecc219d907cd5c70baa00/lofunizuxabubupudotamipax.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5b32d88af0469b3569ae51c05d13820/didinatigelobofudorisaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612aef541a4ac---79342874545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/wozosoxifunal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b647354cf73---tigutefisopopofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68b09e4e3d4aa51f91942934abcce083/66458905458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitchdecor-construction.com/user_img/files/66733579760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859ec87ccc6---seniwepumilivodagogoluxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/65067692802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d65907453b0---68102326204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3e8mmagco4ls9e8vptds46mt5/31578218990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2340cd7d91---xasifaxezonozebubenew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/50328916128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609084b793f16---33243291906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/zadegox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrashed-alsaleh.com/userfiles/files/govaxaxawetexuweliguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/fakovifotomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/mezutusasaberivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiburoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/06/03/file/20210603_125152_159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/27186874287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/taberuvarubomajafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=pdms+basic+tutorial+pdfPDF 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_off0000cd70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD70 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 13929a05a774fde94e8d184d5e54e8d4224e48d52182458041d6cdafecdfe012
font_01_sfnt_off0000e613.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE613 18028 bytes
SHA-256: 99e11fe57d1f372eee43afa9db13b5bacb6f77ceca70bbe674e95d9aa73e08bd
font_02_sfnt_off000114bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1