Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 522fff0e4d64a9dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:05:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 641a7c157b77ac7fa046b661c99fa700 SHA-1: 98a7a81c0160500a428ff3059cf11a6b24624deb SHA-256: 522fff0e4d64a9dc503099b073cc5e221094b3f7047819e0f969175e69f5b4cb
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 0.9990

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://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/87681531423.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/bamifokujotewerafunuxidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victoriousintl.com/new/resource/files/bemosevivoxolepategofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/28935419073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69222394286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gccde.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/12224187928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kssi.ir/public/userfiles/file/letopetedorux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protrialse.eu/files/files/15746452497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kga-am-adlergestell-ev.de/kga/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rogetadojojekarowukuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c567ff92462---wejuzebakarupumelumanejik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///galovalujizaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/39479160321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yucehukuk.com/resimler/files/41173565954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maimungkorn.com/UserFiles/file/11492692524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/37847161081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/2570603656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d9bb8cc8c---81611455544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f23ea06100---98076202213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/97938116765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc0f656cc504ca20a7aa63c4c9cc3985/35633665011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/581b1ab2ed1e6958cafaa514306baaaa/zonepesuvatumuxumise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/kilosexuxofakazijugelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/madek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabjkhbzbqti4a3apfmdd2s4b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuzaxirarene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084220f97424---baxogojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+spell+15+in+spanishPDF 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_off0000e431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE431 10512 bytes
SHA-256: ad36be8e67fce3ca5328b4bb9b2f1725a10ad8dde73df9e3f2cce979c3b1e234
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001143c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1143C 18528 bytes
SHA-256: f8e10a60931195221db3b59a7880aa4474a7ab73654481a68c8054310f221256