Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b29638dd3550c7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:47:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 1e38ffa321d649883d3f433c43586fa8 SHA-1: a09a28827e65cf0ddf17c7433431125606a3b853 SHA-256: 4b29638dd3550c7aa1202a65193f67a01e13d4c839293ab31585b44b656f9f12
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 0.9956

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://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5681229f3b---79843096714.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c873f9bde97---ferarere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bts7vo6ftqjn0mob4oemed7pke/duwusijiduxirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lungtransplantopen.com/clients/d/de/de7cc03d42bda6b8b84c8ac9728529bb/File/vagifuvozeduzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/tiviperozerej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengyaweb.com/uploadfile/file/2021073002352555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/zafisosuxutum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90587776562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionnakrizankach.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gujipawogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/95673582601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-elec.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28599864857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chetaomaynganhnhua.com/uploads/files/butefimetigavopegube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagm.it/userfiles/files/36205876140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tafolotalut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/8946149316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charqueadaboavista.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e74295179f74ca055d464b97d579a0a/86293751038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/60164431857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/115659e72a908fabe244e95ea887aaf6/piluzivomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e14d3532dd65bde438217cb1394ebd4b/7838729624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b9018f9c5---mopodujebunisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steps4cancer.org/clients/a/a7/a78c374070a178914b502abaf3db82b8/File/valogetomowik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075eb47a8a99---45394805834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chablis-gautherin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozufajederifenanog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=compress+pdf+converter+enterprisePDF 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_off0000b242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB242 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 2b9ffd12364fee4ab6190b4607f879c642c3c05ffd3196df796f1565eb4bef11
font_01_sfnt_off0000cabc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCABC 14732 bytes
SHA-256: fdabb14a04c0b49ceca3ad20cf103d71101a581f45491721f6f0e1fb9c281b53
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1