Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4094ce973a0d4403…

MALICIOUS

PDF

147.6 KB Created: 2021-07-21 04:19:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 2ce2beaf5f6eea19296db804d5e36ccc SHA-1: 807f1916e259892044cb4a905b55c0eb354b2cd1 SHA-256: 4094ce973a0d4403428474cf238ae9f9279fc3c753bc8785a36e686db3956844
164 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9226

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/buxatawe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hersheyhigh1981.com/clients/37302/File/60212403137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2282eea1f9---10591146909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp70.com/clients/873855/File/56521516276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/mitikaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/civ82j8ts4s5ujfsqofjvkhekd/62292896556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charontrade.hu/data/file/betusifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/76653873877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/19195059280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cestovni-postylka.eu/userfiles/file/faxigarafoxijotusulevuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkkledingverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/86856483022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c9f18679e150a22fe39bc401fe85825/94981131272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyourhair.nl/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/menigenozas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bab8f5bdaef90048bc16c326942fdd5/83254677224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brownewingfamily.com/clients/a/a4/a4d7a48ed280e719b438ae57db99af5e/File/jutugawexokorowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/73740651428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymenhome-etsinta.net/tiedostot/files/95339358685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tokyomagic.jp/images/library/File/53170339827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c239dc578c745ee841f54f586e89286/zipokifigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed59b04b61b73978a8784e03a4147503/xakaneguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607983479c15c---tejakopedafasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4a1e56c3c---zixatotaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eaa3108068---melirodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=government+meaning+in+englishPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off0001de16.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1DE16 26936 bytes
SHA-256: 906c71ecb530116278d7bedb86e8d09ac0178b5a14174fc962e29b048df0794f
font_00_sfnt_off0001722f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1722F 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 0351ae90e0eebb5b264eeb2392b3aeb73f147b73f487fcb1cee55897f97da2a2
font_01_sfnt_off00019478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19478 32036 bytes
SHA-256: 05df648ec356dba2e6d4e4fbf551f75fd95f0efd1af043b26e26532c3f56f532
font_03_sfnt_off00020fc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20FC8 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 196bec2ac2e46b53048a7a78332929e6db9c70d82782c049e3eb7c240657516e
font_04_sfnt_off0002280c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2280C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1