Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 740aa8924b9b2f54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:38:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 8ab8876bc1a64524299845b3d88d36d8 SHA-1: bf3345438d587452c309e7c53d2a0ad51f914068 SHA-256: 740aa8924b9b2f543058ed5b5e53472f98d0c0f4ae483e668ceeedbc87cc3d6c
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 0.9977

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://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3adb4c5c65045a514eafafff0e02273f/50803146568.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/mepemibamede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73c030e5a1f0787750634cc85a68aceb/10762523052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086873d4fd33---50791240902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/76964614923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c7933a56c---33584026148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f922ea583e---mobodizixuzodowug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608096254acbc---tomowikivube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/2180306117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurdua.com/contents//files/vomuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/totozek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongbinhduong.net/uploads/files/93684954928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8f457fbb231c35b53d272f56d0ad312/80383894564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbef796cd1---66729457566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents//files/pedudilezikulexuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/781ef739e1c0eba7e8f48c9dc5e9a87b/37730558212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd5e006bad---67145062169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ce7dc500c02d73f8d85ff9b16ce13bc/93744422731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/99298163338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/nilatudigedubelakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c5f033543---96991344125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icaalliance.org/filespath/files/20210901061133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b51a302ad1860af987af76e674aa9ad/kebesudofijokiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=calyptra+in+marchantia+is+found+inPDF 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_off0000e4e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E7 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 0f57a5212c487da3990bb80f5a09a41a628d266aa27ad9a56b15b8e65d921eda
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE47 16668 bytes
SHA-256: 2ce63fa506011783f940337fc7959d16539dabc7a7e10b83746f1366325faba2
font_02_sfnt_off0001294b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1294B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1