Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65a3573ff6685825…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-07-17 08:06:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 9ef36ade3607f446762ce675b8a07176 SHA-1: 93b7244051344862f3bd6e3609d4c7a70e7b9dbd SHA-256: 65a3573ff66858253e65d9ff135c22e359581109db87b468a2c951dade2c4965
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 0.9942

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.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076af5ae62ed---51278462776.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roxolijudapofobixikibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/tuxafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/zalabida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df3041a39f---fizunurovof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/ligekitibimovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvsqsba0j8i9i9lcma4ljc5hbm/xikaronapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f3f0b78e9---90957776591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sammyuriasproperties.com/userfiles/files/zovomikozotibuxalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e46a2d431c23db10e2f7df9b9be4142/pozulezif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1c3b6915e46373a424438a678b8e65e/pinagedifomugivaboke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvf391c5t7eqmcga9ee25fceio/67705892649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togetherwewalkny.org/clients/2/24/2411cc079aa0f0d7fd57f81c6163ecfd/File/12867114415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c024199d9---rodamivebimefemanoxirugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa6336b1f51750228b82922ce1891efc/vupuwekoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087657210e10---zopisunutor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ektv4sk6p260eprh53qfggva3b/24352858571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1be57dfb7a---36529821094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/23539088270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/82125025314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/wewofuloporino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents//files/64975845528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=whitney%27s+kiss+chapter+4PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c0ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0ED 1692 bytes
SHA-256: 6df00093d1a1fd8b8f95901b42ba2863538c90606311dd4adf1993a433792d13
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8F6 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 64acd81aba9e02b9d28ea51ec29f50ea529dc719ec1f63fb2a4064c37b1d605e
font_02_sfnt_off0000e14f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE14F 16300 bytes
SHA-256: 1142480bef5d9392f1a603357dab1db353aee91afe322a254e0f6fcb8f53ef71
font_03_sfnt_off00010b2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1