Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c29a80346276b87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.0 KB Created: 2021-06-15 20:06:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 07e2fadfcd7f949b1fb897d6303bd6ff SHA-1: 7486f3298b9f59c344dae49185ae9c3a2a7139a2 SHA-256: 6c29a80346276b870f25bac5d6eeb9a11e0d042f74ae10f3577f95e3a4c3eae1
154 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 0.8593

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=maya+mb+to+obj+converter+online PDF link annotation
    • http://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/ninipovewagaruwumuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609165d53a969---42738030898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e1349127af3f7e81ba1fee7a40514af/28673686011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085304341663---97054486777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2de5bb28ec---fuzebugoxuwajunivenimefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamessham.com/admin/usercontent/file/xibemupiwurobezaganobed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/zoxizikukiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074221c0eb31---65852726179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07tilpmdmj3gn3d856nrghrab9/80076656254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/52416013102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad36335522---fevozapozatonazodojoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e60ad12fe4fd374c07f6a547c19acda/fixitotekezuvukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c265ea1649---30539957779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/61706521988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c8067376fac91124adca3122c9240c2/jozakodilapaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/47763740451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2EE 4032 bytes
SHA-256: 97c2b2e40c1385b4481fda1c9b3ae017bab0cd090847a61954886acf943b7a13
font_01_sfnt_off0000f15f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15F 5148 bytes
SHA-256: 05b81e3ad33e154c3354f1abcf38db8e31aad4fd2d4eb876449d3633acf680a4

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