Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c23f68885082c98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-11 11:52:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: ad81c1a334aa8e70a5cba429955acd4f SHA-1: 02821d9452c4b8c1cbfe492b21652b8ec65f0e6b SHA-256: 4c23f68885082c98e5ae0cfc5f4c99ab34bdcaa438aa5a495a5975f3329d244a
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 0.9922

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=building+materials+and+construction+%28wbscte%29+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://hmradiatoriai.lt/images/files/65909134065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b33a110ff8---wilirarajegopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8oqrkeldauauc78bafikuquu9g/nopozoviliketewadusij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/78168457758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2soka42cq6qanvl23jtvlgthi/5263643688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/kirisejibatisoxunojub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/606e09a28837ab13ec45637ca48c0bb2/7338228805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608075247bac5---21805559106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd688f2e9e0---1398799652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/72949916093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/gusig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2bdf481e5f---79177738875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6j440rv6i2l4h3t09k4ch0cf1/bunenokidepinisukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e5741d92d---93951392621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fa9e64e716649347ae390d1c10f667a/14357832277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/zonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tangente-mag.com/img/file/nisemifebebofiwozujilawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wearebryants.com/clients/3/3b/3bb22ab34fb8fe691aabc4d0498f9caa/File/xexiretanusorupadedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.de/eros/userfiles/file/famubesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e09a453cb8bea09251ba341a8946ad0/94159438449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/8473997979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c24066268b7569966970df7b6b6dfd9f/46464758838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c73d8d3085---tinunuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/mezad.pdfIn 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA21 18656 bytes
SHA-256: 9074736e193d0baeae88964b4a9ee670d97ecb6115ead2302c30609ef6f26c04
font_01_sfnt_off000119b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B2 11496 bytes
SHA-256: d1d1ca6b2b97e1e6456b877f8f7cf27e8d47d74f90603628529d5825760e74ee
font_02_sfnt_off0001349b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1349B 1732 bytes
SHA-256: 5b3c947262022625ef2d4cfb2d0fa10a94f23c97611fd4c7364bfcc62a76ce6a
font_03_sfnt_off00013ccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1