Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 451b7ef5ac1ae342…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-08-17 15:09:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 990a3780959b7606d026a18e9c472fa8 SHA-1: e14b765ee8523a094804683d53f088f77d6dc6ce SHA-256: 451b7ef5ac1ae342cec5488e3e26e641dc725cdb74809810739f3eac29791409
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 0.9998

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 http://qzgj.cn/upload/file/zifum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78994b0efc76844ed11762bf53c9343d/wovapobowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podwierzba.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kojufapimulavurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ba4deae48---7896394871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210807205540277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glamour-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43464636792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newchat.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/molizefakorugik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf4vstot9v9pi3ejbnmhn2u547/ribufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://air-separation-supplier.com/d/files/vivejuzig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/it0cevj2j7ah7pbb7psf55frm4/21385774354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/21968393322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ef7d7a5ff---xotidani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f64d8b4b863---78187265494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d27e8361bff16fcd9a28ec11bcada901/29572251717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/698dcvfjb47q8j8corg70h3c9s/wixusamegadegerukaladuzak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28bdba344a---lupumutalubeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/sofodubitaxobiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d56196677ca917f9181ac5134f5e363/31677017591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endemic-capital.ru/uploads/files/78356419586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e96adc46f778c7c6aa3fbf0cdfc8cf29/fatozerorude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+transfer+call+on+nortel+networks+phonePDF 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_off0000be57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE57 16152 bytes
SHA-256: a667230bdd9da800e31b3ddc876511d246f931dcdcbc03b5c7ffa3b277d37f59
font_01_sfnt_off0000e81f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE81F 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 6e23c92e3797923620e901ea1b28ccd2478f38156beb3786bd5f2822a602a2b9
font_02_sfnt_off00010083.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10083 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1