Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 378150aad77b2135…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-06-18 09:36:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 88751488a9beee15da7527ecf6b93fed SHA-1: e3842da8529fa8ab5d448737b056ef1398116d64 SHA-256: 378150aad77b21354690de8d97ce400e30e9fa46a303b5f11bef056574ca714e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/015711fc018053f0a94acb743d1ee1f9/nidiwujoxidal.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609048c6d74d4---26702028295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reaga.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pexeduvulixamibezuxutes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a82873f4a7---16744119536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file/%5C/wewulajidewajagefaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/35359320082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpf0k7r0490hnstd18ebk0r5e3/8518987303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c88355e43---88792486004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nck4fbs2j72sslgg9qlihu9okn/gopavuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/78019427748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc5a468ad4---dogemutelasekodaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3952f33e6998b57778c94d7f003f7fa2/tilubefopajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/86478745476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f09f3d75da1c74818b83d78ac27ff99/41136456668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/41145975816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbe04f33a0a---depixebudanoviwatiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=last+of+us+2+walkthrough+abbyPDF 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://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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7F4 5500 bytes
SHA-256: 95c26b4f85ea59ef794bbd6e6391419a87c546ed9b718cd6235f305b813690c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC5 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 6d82727f253a2f9a069637a86df719912dcc36e92069c6bee75f68dbb5a625b6
font_02_sfnt_off000111d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111D9 16144 bytes
SHA-256: f7f944af48a1f29a4fc81369acbb7667dc0c0bb312d09d0e658341ed730dbf86
font_03_sfnt_off00012711.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12711 4048 bytes
SHA-256: d05e760f6b09777b218384c4e10abb9da46aa9039c5f3ff864e168d1d6808186