Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eb9bc010b5dc4e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.1 KB Created: 2021-08-30 09:13:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 8740c5bd9a69560bcd2a9fb49c0c2220 SHA-1: 48fdb1cb4cef5f11986bdc5d4190d7052a57cfa4 SHA-256: 4eb9bc010b5dc4e12a6b6a02fee649c76f50e4e10f5c8ebd80687a672f556428
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 0.9979

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 http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/gerijusokoweva.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/soxaduzarenopil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c16123b9c00---dasibubirivarurelomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e45a09b7d8c6b2982832a1be9b49aac1/39506297586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noticiascgnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84192273086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2f3b886ac---87861006702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e1f6c38461a58fef08354b543920a15/74596394895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f48ff35ef48f959069b75d136006684/5817039672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-1/20210801164710122097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xdata.pl/app/webroot/img/ckf/files/gozuxunurasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novo-foto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vijatebet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melnikhouse.com/userfiles/file/fafifud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ffe814c31a83db1636ca69cbd32383e/9539483851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/79534594232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac97ffc4325---patupuzamilevakusetezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8k5ie550c8jqao8rlrlb6t9l5/debexifuxijujijive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94157122250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df7307615ce651c4df42504fbcd32ce1/66190827121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e68bed2d9---61637709258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d041ce2def6---29171962522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/58031168416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a76f14511---wosebetixivuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewellmanteam.com/userfiles/files/3677593455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+great+ambersonsPDF 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_off00013b0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B0B 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 2e53cbb6be66b9e3b4f801915f8a044e5b05ecf457d4f8e4447e524b56d264ff
font_01_sfnt_off000152db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016aed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16AED 19596 bytes
SHA-256: 6d2be44a2ba5592c3aec6294bde1647699d42e42272b9587a4bfc10a04a90647