Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 728504016da75594…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-08-25 08:09:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 5eb48cdbffb795b82f6f980e3eb570e7 SHA-1: 2aedc69db9c7862283097742271f7dac918902d7 SHA-256: 728504016da755945bd4d401db1a46df3e67128dfa0cc48e58777413c830e491
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 0.9988

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://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee4af9327d393f1e87960b6beed297df/39500970.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609972500e7fc---44951114137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105e998b13f9---36574231534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099aca4c0720---gegiwejemogovapota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/lojodugeravazikov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ad0b3616e5489e2501c93ec184d08a2/82053398585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/quplj19thikms6edbj3lka0isb/52184993135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/18960247054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/kuximewedofomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/gutaxurepuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tlo.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dixinumotidobofiboxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d25422139e0---17052854957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/23677628091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f542584a3f---xofojevatekamer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dijladentalcenter-qa.com/userfiles/file/gesogod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6479704789---sigisugigijima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scottleddy.net/clients/862555/File/67754166375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suriyedostlukdernegi.org/image/files/345120599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d62bca609f---mulozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/vigivimumewilalijexozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ffc987eb06---27253221295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkknr6bf30f8vcfglm3uci3sn3/juvifinivoguvov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faceless.me/userfiles/files/rapiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=data+communication+and+networking+by+forouzan+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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://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_off0000d320.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD320 17412 bytes
SHA-256: 4c846cfc6c863ebc49333e7bf08b1aeda0acb0a60624e35bfbdd7101f97f6fe3
font_01_sfnt_off000100e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E9 11388 bytes
SHA-256: b22f9ac6f78485aa932c518748a19214db4731e3843054b8a0ad2e6bae305fe9
font_02_sfnt_off00011b76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1