Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6af9dcd08fa43772…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-06-24 07:48:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 195b46b1d86595bcb5d6888830a9039c SHA-1: c1d7e499125533dee390b428507c322b9e0cf5e5 SHA-256: 6af9dcd08fa437721d5db2b1259f73a90775a57037fb8c9272dcc4ce006f218a
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 0.9998

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://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/zuwudejuno.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f174bcc2de7bcb9a6015a66bb35d476a/jeratozifejazine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98dd9a162c4683d3b1dccc031c5e7f6a/tagegika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021052011093370554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/71124397092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/40707377034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/viajrmlrvitmmr3rvlv2ika71d/41203701140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/menonozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/077c977ab64c61b8ca958f03cf0f69b9/xixube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607994abbc9bf---vigegusedobezojobelanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/musenefomuwokodax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff60d6f9e2---32586032627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc4bc21ea0f74db85909d87afc17e18d/20506258727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=kamchatka+libro+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E9 4952 bytes
SHA-256: 1d09de10130fab8b397f0104286e00f5be1179410e2bdffa553ade4b19a94f31
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6AE 14432 bytes
SHA-256: 00aeacf30d80a6885d6a6d8ca0a770abf5b0de326bc908521334f68d970ebef6
font_02_sfnt_off00012324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12324 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3