Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 738368c190b5a949…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:03:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: e9bd9c0d5c4bbda56ae55f5a9e291db7 SHA-1: b9e2d50bf849c80facfc611753bb380b3890386c SHA-256: 738368c190b5a9499e86500974d5ba6a3d8c163b053988ad4e0b4ddf65bc218c
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 0.9960

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://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc9d8343b8f---49480760672.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ekonopuntos.com/campannas/file/85715747961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/84815796088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e52483e55d---sodesavinewanatixat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d452e2b660dc157d4286c8b61913893/varudedetefuwelega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moderator.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/23178322031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/jofowamagusefupoxoxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaodantanthaison.com/Images_upload/files/4163776270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/nuguvuzib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/43898350863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b91a10b59---61784266397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/nalobunoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32c09f7a3d970483a2b36b619511f82c/jevujawigaroxebitikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/18220586526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210723083308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/ximaxamalekopekolefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/52097040665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079af10f266f---juladutowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63097403994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21f3caa897e7428729886cad022f1f10/87640720960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02889318f759713fbe97c71971bdcd49/20384833621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlato-stribro-investice.com/upload/files/negad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrzservices.com/uploadfiles/file/65352099405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+merge+pdf+pages+into+one+pagePDF 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_off0000dda1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDA1 17768 bytes
SHA-256: f86a8cb9e18450510b79d15c69e49465a716ee8579bf4e93e719f9649dea9286
font_01_sfnt_off00010b8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B8A 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 93ed1dbc99667cf9a21c5f32948cbdbb18858e05acabc49add2e787e8a61b6d7
font_02_sfnt_off00012477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12477 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1