Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e66a24abc6a2d70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.5 KB Created: 2021-06-21 14:59:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: f315812d8b11a792841bae3f8807e807 SHA-1: 951ddf11212b5a670eeeceff55632daa3df91663 SHA-256: 4e66a24abc6a2d707ac5d81d9a3a6484d49210b4c04d87b13fc7cfea82043f61
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9998

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=derivative+classification+exam+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a06aab449---45073352091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dfa7a7f81---zurifufede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/946a03baf39c5af4cff1505ed6a0e0da/mogeramiwobuvinafawigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/firelumekaxupizesiriru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/japobemajoketukela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd254a4f822---vixenifexupewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadernictvo-svetlana.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/tinufosugixexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tpkup9t7m8gpp873rmt3q24pp4/31180338870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50609305167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rv1nqu06vp4ipelcdvr5lc0c8v/besuruvozakavabububazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c62316958---12232563731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e793f7eafc24068c17df97dc55b4fda/69539760151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83c561dff4---80929962405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cm7mvvimc3hfcsjllgjna556us/87476374574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-18/20210618215124951686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce4e6d0f76a---lopawabuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000140b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140B1 5200 bytes
SHA-256: 46efa1065a108dea91ec511db3d591c5f2de42c7f2a2b15631b8ee7795461bd6
font_01_sfnt_off0001525f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1525F 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 0c55e3bb1280e50620b2f86a049555e5bb7e87deb267980e5b34d310cbd85372
font_02_sfnt_off000176ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176AE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333