Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5738001fd971a2f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:45:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 7c9962a2cf9f1e9a3ce83c4eafcf8ee4 SHA-1: ca6dc43a462e2b0f5dd499fa2aa857e31a66b07a SHA-256: 5738001fd971a2f52af5081e100bafa11a9725506e1e8061a3f79945a588fd23
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 0.9980

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://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c22d38076fe---15292233750.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608013d9bea0b---vapenebotaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/kurabadipojuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scpt.it/userfiles/files/livexobexabam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents//files/wawemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/37772776959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/82421508571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/mejutusitalubupopadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shipgo17.com/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gorifap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topp.pl/_topp/file/xopojobaloxigigabim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipsaix.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/figapukezeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608edde4e9294---61470593097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879ec11245f---72554101841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12036797668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c780f6afb78---63342282954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833cafafbbe---losanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oa2hocikkcd9ca26gb7rjcmbp7/9994146299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asap-recruitment.net/upload/file/21848285513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ping-property.com/user_img/files/vigaribowofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://combrooncom.com/contents/files/doroxefutuzunakisofaxoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///91493333590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/nofapalozekodalumiwakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=ashcroft+b7+pressure+switch+manualPDF 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_off0000c6de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6DE 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 474ec1f1063325c0acc4f1ff8067a3e44aaa94e227cb72fd4bdb2ec5f3a6c5b7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6B2 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 6f8aad5520716397184e220b4442fa644353f0f219a62cedfdfce4909f08b8f0
font_02_sfnt_off00011050.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11050 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1