Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f294844dc3b1c94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:51:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: a53c5904ef7d1b72ccb1330ab8fda971 SHA-1: 80646c60c884ae0af5c0f2030eea3c1565ebe385 SHA-256: 5f294844dc3b1c94b6477604c90b0049e6128ce208cf40f103c1ef84494a5c50
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 0.9992

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://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fda5503086e---53168312559.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inncredel.com/uploads/54590284030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///2021628165040243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baudoinfamily.com/clients/f/fc/fc66627f90e8a365851b026dcf169025/File/96994963782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161205ca890c1b---6727112711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natproperty.com/userfiles/files/bepitovulumidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cac3a4dd900---gedexeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b34827b2db---modipokugib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/dinodedakogozoxuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976890cfd95---82283310121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verredistri.fr/xmedia/file/58879684606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e91fbb4c0c4c21ce609c2741663abc0/jovaxefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/gubazudizanagulesuzuwutez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/jejesofuxosadarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://666666.vn/upload/fck/file/27805104450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/pitakusodizararaxexeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roomyab.ir/basefile/roomyabir/files/xatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/vixuvaradobuboviluzetuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db99d0d1a4b---75193071783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9lp7hcsp54rvu7uacd49g0g23/ruxubujorosamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/57399985275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetounificado.com/uploads/files/rivorunobaxewupopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848e8bd6df0---muroguxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=uncharted+unwelcome+guestsPDF 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_off0000bd06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD06 10920 bytes
SHA-256: d6891f7178e9d28c1385bbce3bd7651687d184a59b28e098475b852db20dd204
font_01_sfnt_off0000d601.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD601 20704 bytes
SHA-256: 9a80a346d2523ea28b4e43948176cef7a91219dbe558c6769742d8b04bf3ea72
font_02_sfnt_off0001098e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1098E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1