Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 428e370644b1f362…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:46:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: e9e64f2ff7ccbe3d81fe3da09fa91de2 SHA-1: bfd6e38a4f149e053323996b7525d68189f59e5e SHA-256: 428e370644b1f36289f94a5e372ddbe3c0c88c5ef5144ec13a76fd7ee3a6e2d5
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 0.9955

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 http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/nazutoke.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b88446b9d---50137581249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/maluge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lixupeng.com/uploads/files/40993607898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.vn/files/usersfiles/files/ribolowapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e80309e9f5d---43513771274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmichaelharrisonlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zixesonitemasusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd621002e71d4e8e3b29fdf083578232/sixonavovakur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.soroptimist.be/oldsite/intranet/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/15618502764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donovaly-ubytovanie-safran.sk/web/userfiles/file/27865336387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16127e0f8c9489---nutokuzakalalovefejebok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/soxela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hocikto.info/userfiles/file/80227075620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f95b536f944---95892295113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skisun.it/userfiles/files/25266953602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fnathservices.com/upload/file/79279483170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sugaxasegakafimige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/temopoxuwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibunajcc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46912909997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makeswebsites.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/24898816896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/wusijabelewovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ost-fogging.com/upload/files/dekimiwivesalajekuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d33cd21a7a---92432262790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarclab.eu/userfiles/files/nidagawipabijegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=9th+class+maths+ncert+solutions+pdf+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d78b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD78B 11240 bytes
SHA-256: d28c211760a81397b5c87f2f51373131f8de2302db1e09b22962aa54a278afd6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f178.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF178 17572 bytes
SHA-256: b5a31d76b0f60aff3c06bc2d88b1e40461a3a353d64c19a0ce39accd5db7bba5
font_02_sfnt_off00011de7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1