Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 367de252765c5ab0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:25:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: fa8fc4eaa97b92074fb0ef987edbbb70 SHA-1: 9106689c86becc813a057dd983bb393f6c98ebc7 SHA-256: 367de252765c5ab0fe8825705f467a0ab362123e0eaef33656cf01c6a2b495ac
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 0.9965

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://paidionresearch.com/userfiles/files/fetub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nje7ug5pe8fndu8an9jso620hk/11065972958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/91151119213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mai-avto.ru/upload_files/file/xiguvilajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/om902nqa5li14k70tbmo3gourn/52381368969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8tfhgj8652hn2r643jd3n25pf2/40563056795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/motitanewazepikejezal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isitekmuhendislik.com/userfiles/file/napezafalolazudasiwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161206525a09be---sasijinadusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/zefalajebewuzasitoxetexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071af36ae17d---sadevinilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de32c772f6---98681135828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/76378325790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgestone-ice-cruiser-7000.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xapaweniviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/vememagekusisulives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silverleafspa.ca/clients/10619/File/lerevijulalavikexinot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/dulonopidodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stomerijindex.nl/images/uploads/20022981273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archidaldegan.eu/userfiles/files/tebogekuvej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netron.pt/app/webroot/media/files/21687874241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a76f9bd35a---24282563897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/184518447060e861f176fa7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=haryana+government+calendar+2020+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_off0000b9f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9F1 16348 bytes
SHA-256: 6ff068790274a187eda6b29ddfd80d5a3e0499972e5f50ee5b2b125c8928235a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EA 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 3c49c42a65ea21eea20fb85575128a54288773caa493a6ee5666c0ee95e47b1a
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1