Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6637c629758ac81c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.8 KB Created: 2021-06-20 01:51:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: f1d4ddbb3ee3c48aec543e47f845f42d SHA-1: 17d4f90fc31d02fde968db0645d9077de79a6d8b SHA-256: 6637c629758ac81cc730d503e7b61ab4361042df518cce472866432e7c5bc384
176 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. It uses a QR-code lure. 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 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ash+greninja+qr+code+ultra+moon PDF link annotation
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dde0787a31---dogipagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5ae0d56a7---suwufifujotudejele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jogforbigt.com/clients/6/61/61f7a61d17da296148a50ccd59c4a139/File/teperaxavavivumiravobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c950db3d7c3---58513092082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9d78a5fb6bb6ba649ae6eb4709de785/34692088295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c77458d370e6059ed92cce2eb904a24/90301739112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/31559385261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba984f12d10---kexujaxuguxedelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qhf283td75simr6smqepsgi0b3/43937790741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0f85ba70ecc84359d9af99d12a7f086/92916695172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/958607bfadf1a0126ed9a3291744050a/81357452798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/675df9367d3c37f52ac8f95f847c6d4f/37216939433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/jesewesuworipotukorakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1df84264d---53583299366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bd1c64d16c5657524ed77f75f401920/fikaseriwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/47423957260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000be45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE45 3316 bytes
SHA-256: 9526eb704f46d37b30b2e6d22164c7dabc0f8d220fe10495229cb82c4e68b209
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9BD 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 537cda922b7b7357fbe421bd815d2704aad7971ba74a40365f3520609dd7567e
font_02_sfnt_off0000dc6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC6E 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 0b971f8ef8a46eb1e79fdca7266fc8b3bb1f2838bcc500dd84c8a11c2f4c2f70