Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 707b233c20fd1fe2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-06-24 22:21:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: f3e305ea8f856e4ebf82eda84cb5181f SHA-1: 3336ea28e2037b427b9f848be13c3ec5f4e8cf0b SHA-256: 707b233c20fd1fe2cbb9ec83da74f703d4dfeb9a8a0f5322f1f5f996e2d7bf7f
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://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16ad46d4ecb5cfef03a1be351daeccc9/97055545412.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/jozufuxerebodun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d27c070fd44---51319282238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivetripper.com/userfiles2020/files/kiboluzazawipivovuxegip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/takevumemesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1f6dc31af---dekuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daebokjungdb.com/uploads/files/gawatokidobaxixetoxoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/792ulnvq5c5afh2fjts6s4fb0r/66169582981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c75b6d0b0c---19844392481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c3e677e9d---6304857286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cd79f1bded2a587a7fef9f2d15b63a0/70197446840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuss.it/file/64223634643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160974e299791c---78642748145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da7884fc07---85126640645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/mixanolimesemefefofadebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905e8f650ee---fufulezizokilugekupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=truncated+taylor+series+approximationPDF 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE1E 5340 bytes
SHA-256: b27780aeb51fe1fbec82513df4ccef440cf80f349ddb39f9ade70d2168a79c76
font_01_sfnt_off0001003d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1003D 12476 bytes
SHA-256: 1100bc518679cf04ad7158d506a9268167711d84841f69370d1e8b410287e00e
font_02_sfnt_off00012a6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A6A 16088 bytes
SHA-256: b3315cde4e6abeb34f1b79d8477b11fb49def9602e4f47d08cf7029dbc3c052e