Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ed2be78ff6552f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-06-13 01:22:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 72a2656be2901deb44b93be0d7d2c826 SHA-1: 16b8befb281a376e8234a8020af2198478769311 SHA-256: 6ed2be78ff6552f92544cd20a5d73fc56a55dce31dffadd580e89938d426e70a
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 0.9993

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+english+grammar+pdf+book PDF link annotation
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/newulizurukijorukeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81e3626f57---lerowisumaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/sagatufemutep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c7f7be6b6---98423781252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/906797ed23dc17f94a3696a14705e23a/83112194870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/valiwuzuzaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076638578c79---8366979869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/61695006190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/zowib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17490684b93f1b93f05619099f6153d7/22453554147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eib4sn8mjs2gu3fi1qhhrk7du/labupaganotufif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g4acnretdkpg674es4g9i8a6e/dupafevuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f704.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF704 5748 bytes
SHA-256: bf5a6e762e1ccc6c91a0c51e72dd8e12e6b644cd874a536748e1ddfba59110d9
font_01_sfnt_off00010a7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A7F 3720 bytes
SHA-256: 40ef96da86b6123d577d475be460de15c41b9ca7393a8e650be4e9942aa3c64b
font_02_sfnt_off000115e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E1 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 654446883473e343648bd16004bcd2e82fd9ed4b608679a5fc32f9356182febc
font_03_sfnt_off00013be0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BE0 16204 bytes
SHA-256: c988415812f594187b0a0ed75dc52802e798e1695b49bd300f8412a65040a449
font_04_sfnt_off0001514c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1514C 13964 bytes
SHA-256: 21ba1975e522993e45bdd4c6c563113bbd297413dfe3b2a413d935c65258e387