Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7391ebb50982538c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-06-03 21:00:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 946821805dfbd3855f5f16dcaec85ee8 SHA-1: 3c725d96e8969394286278b3ab4f5b7c616524e7 SHA-256: 7391ebb50982538cd5e7ec65b44cde648d908beda22a3e481277c6d138303f66
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 0.9316

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/veliwoxudimawit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f846dc4fe---73832051568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/439ba98fca151c435340396a804de5fc/ramatavokojevatapizesoput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897a9e7302b---nibesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b91a10b59---61784266397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c77475578f---62867174525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a957715ef1---30996605570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/kefufag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47d3619fbd98d99d4b768632f8d59e91/22322778879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/xiwifakelogasebela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7cahek6u394frp5j08qke49d0/62482611311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/tidokokimepitesuzojuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a2ca2edd5---69763563612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab7f0e9e98---56866281475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b26a08fd7f---9930125124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094325de4d71---38671909384.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/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=inuyasha+kanketsu-hen+capitulo+5+espa%25C3%25B1ol+latino+facebookPDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFCF 4600 bytes
SHA-256: bdb9f307fce1dcbc0062b40fa3937b426c08fbf3e3d9ff52cccfcefd5957d071
font_01_sfnt_off0000efe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE9 5616 bytes
SHA-256: da58d1d609496936a92f99f1a374d68f7a888489aa85dafe043ae0471404fc10