Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e359a9cb7980da0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 19:48:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e2d57c68cf8da798169edb96ecd8399f SHA-1: e525921601a8b755f948f5b5bb67cf61f1d34422 SHA-256: 4e359a9cb7980da0f7a5834351198eb3361bb7dd878ece76e5669cfc5c53022f
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 0.9988

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=love+island+season+2+episode+1 PDF link annotation
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344529133e9---45928314117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billagelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/9102608718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redeyeldn.com/userfiles/file/79125113762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/291860577613f2d15b4005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluvioneschicamocha.sinecsas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15212069275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futuralagoparking.eu/userfiles/files/10866003681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunshin.net/userfiles/file/24356327112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee2ec15cc7---45995957454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmaicharmingtravel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/794106053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f45dd0df64---zasexitutazazozajopepedut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orsini-blasioli.it/userfiles/files/boruveninipulidijunososu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lbjgold.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tovobixezepasisop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/27717477507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stefanourso.com/public/userfiles/file/dapifonorusot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaluzipro.ru/public/userfiles/file/kasabivikituxegom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/baxinikilezapofezomolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63b977d89179b03b0169beebd745a94e/31961467973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sunadugabuluxerowinoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/360fa685e2de0d57f9ada01278a86d23/65062906021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thsport.dk/userfiles/file/58618031967.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109F8 19304 bytes
SHA-256: 732894c54f8c628b6603e16b49672ebb499e3496c582d5037983a6399cd58f8d
font_02_sfnt_off00013c0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C0E 10380 bytes
SHA-256: c6ea95f095c89b60af06f0d93ff24a468ae0483bf7b4ad0f5e64b989ba9ec8ae