Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4770400ec01dc87e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-06-12 03:06:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 1749e562526a4c1f977833c61a2b39c9 SHA-1: 5c32537c3c5afdb5dba95eb1f8f9a9faa8607ba8 SHA-256: 4770400ec01dc87e93d3ff7bb97b93b5e518558edc78c7d4ba9922bea3418fdb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a fake browser/software-install lure. 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 0.9991

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+story+instagram+chrome PDF link annotation
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kli8ceee0to8vmdang2um4mb06/75275571326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/kaxutapar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/93350736774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea24d955a7---10001927301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0e041a0bf---xaratar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1ba052a85---37498355528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a6d6ec24b---tuxebakofivage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22pnc8n2l1kk429ihl6b4ib5m7/jonanerezajuloluteziriru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb2867a2616---nusegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7863c59e49---wudipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607335629adf4---32815532081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfced64a352---jatorenupobelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cko6k9o1cgfeba0fg95kmgcqm1/86710064521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b7e7c4505---46115024509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905d5e82293---retudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toddfamilyreunion.com/clients/4/48/482e924d5a052aa4a0c13eb8a30e0bc8/File/43914599740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c24637beb7---bukod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfielddeli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37120487562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ughcek80an93pp0qe9la61l4n/vipajesisotunopakesapogob.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001086e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1086E 6440 bytes
SHA-256: 2ce5a7286efefc5aae27ce1c31b3347e159d00bd30cf97f509a0b7f7d49caffb
font_01_sfnt_off00011863.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11863 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 4cdcff34e33d9103b1468f2f0e0c9509c5c708aa6634f1de57304cbdcb037cef
font_02_sfnt_off00012b29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B29 6196 bytes
SHA-256: a9ce27c160c03765ad9ea935e020dbe7e67be2d27e6f5f07d9b246088294b103
font_03_sfnt_off00013cf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CF4 10640 bytes
SHA-256: a62d7f71bf990584c53b26702829cabe965ee3545d683297dfdb0f651f432dfd
font_04_sfnt_off000161a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161A3 16256 bytes
SHA-256: f2db604f3199fdc7ae9b11b1c10c0ff70d560dda0391e03b0827a19c82717310