Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b23754da7b229b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

172.0 KB Created: 2021-06-09 18:59:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 7eb222f055cf6827f9158456fc77ee64 SHA-1: 1b23d5096704a0a799ba9ba1409f3d69e1dca969 SHA-256: 3b23754da7b229b077aa15b9d606ca5141efe1a90bb83bbb30821175955c5d8f
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 0.9992

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=toefl+ibt+codebreaker+reading+advanced+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/21293787382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mea-travel.pl/userfiles/file/riwagugezofove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/xosasulufudunizogatadelag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb4932ed9fd---36404969499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/51365587708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegibbsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/d9/d929505c7faf6263097cc97620c39d65/File/92514112600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f606142d38---fozibedul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba79696947b---sopomagukuxozobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898342bc0c2---26413728386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d5f9a958dcd70a48412f4f7568038c9/selav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfad16c88c---febigikeborejoxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/39870696557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a13f359d0b---guzawaguzofipuvimatefek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p80ntdbf649k3j38kio0vn91h7/34748224864.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001a0d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A0D6 68120 bytes
SHA-256: 727a41d7cbc0a6e09ce8d83f3b3e962fc3441fb478013d00c6414ba1ae668474
font_01_sfnt_off000250b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x250B6 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 126f5d7bb6f73dc946bf439ee5e611c26dcbeffee3ee53235cc11183d8215c5a
font_02_sfnt_off00026305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26305 11784 bytes
SHA-256: 00ed7e744b9e05f91901d0ec94b89bc7c94fd862f9b8a06b1f5baf17d9c21ae6
font_03_sfnt_off00028b67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28B67 16196 bytes
SHA-256: d9da9afc52667750187a35f67ed5d607843949c986aa9ad391d895a9e309cdb6