Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 463b8ef44d623d3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:11:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 726e7eee9a8e4028d8bf29b680d6325f SHA-1: 2fc59cef62859c9a2f47a480edf3cc486b30a6ae SHA-256: 463b8ef44d623d3a5cb85b207e90f742727aff8be8deef608d68f278b08e2a97
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 0.9942

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 https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/grjpk2r75hvtec16smr14vesf8/mozifevanokuroduju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161217b8ace50d---tuxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fbe45457dbcb6a871e1cb344b172d70/61692720709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/zevinopalilubizusubagapor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb7f01ddbf---98753491868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac52dc0019c---bepitapuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parvazyab.net/basefile/api203/files/95679728499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zakarpattya-tour.com/upload/13419943604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13970e7c360803e985a5bb6fbc283b67/30824689518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnhhgj.com/upfiles/userfiles/file/43748633638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f12e2e28b190f8e2b0b0e684fe521b4/xepisegezujales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ed95b1d410---51895231335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba899bafa89e637fd33aa0b58f0d13d0/98784379066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0242fc4d13deabef2ca88445e3df71f7/33167504463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2i9n6kgejeg7tt63e2nsasvp39/fonogipekewar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getampedmag.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9662220416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrasvilla.es/uploads/files/jofolide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/xorigigonuvuputon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhuoer.ltd/userfiles/file/lonemotuxunevusexexawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/mumijitizonukuzonizom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/dokegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceresasrl.it/userfiles/files/gimupesizur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/jixogimevategipovore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=interpretivist+paradigm+pdfPDF 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_off00010cf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF6 18524 bytes
SHA-256: b923068330f8c2550530c8244227cfdfdfd5ce504691cc15824abb461e58869c
font_01_sfnt_off00013d50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D50 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 50751accb27b6ff3f17942e9230c95bf3dad5c5f74a39d16b9fac3f2a16b6525
font_02_sfnt_off000155a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1