Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d2a8b48ffd54290…

MALICIOUS

PDF

134.0 KB Created: 2021-07-28 13:52:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: dc46bf1cfb8f87fb2abdba15f3ae102d SHA-1: 44e00782ba35a353caf561ca7c1d69f1309d65e0 SHA-256: 4d2a8b48ffd542903d4c86f6951b0728e1baaa1b9e181163af9837a13b94d002
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 0.9972

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://nibrasimansch.com/userfiles/files/jewaretudepopogixazu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ec56ba172f5c9a2e4094a6eeda51b16/66130884450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5b1bd22e7---41514927374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/16574517711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iword.de/userfiles/file/3691442253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8092ecd78e72e9e4a82fd6243d412e5/71006398198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fc62e6cb6---firesulanulanigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcserviszlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/samogezod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylplj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wekudofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/74695970070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joxejidigaburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacie.vn/web/uploads/files/80073827387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l01o5k56iu5n7so55ttppv5d67/bolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03a73198d2---78242063431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suaups.net/userfiles/file/vijamomuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/39788766266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9350012806ba2f33d0628df53ac3e513/34751926789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusheng168.com/uploadfiles/20210714034549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8ed362873---5472931963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89783edf3e7a0a25fd48ae0bd2523de3/19793538087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/68530399966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77e7874834---josorebofevikonizokafeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=wwe+2k19+universe+mode+draft+simulatorPDF 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_off0001a79b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A79B 17804 bytes
SHA-256: 11065d05ea86b55045691b6e8c69f0a5c9e69b193b56a7588b617ef7da6bf676
font_01_sfnt_off0001d680.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D680 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 25c894c9316bc6dd120982e43f37e06f00356a4f58af494306b597222c0ded6a
font_02_sfnt_off0001f0ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F0ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1