Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7623e2f0dd0a517b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-06-07 01:13:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 2cc4ad170d4af5de58e217ae71c750f6 SHA-1: aca25963e5ec688c8039bb2bb6101cd93c5d2e31 SHA-256: 7623e2f0dd0a517bc2081fc1949c0d615e21932fd5a7d97a140d2fbf4ab22573
176 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. It uses a QR-code lure. 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 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mastercard+qr+merchant PDF link annotation
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946fa50d658---36036007253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b3307f68f---13685105532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/91271886327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849d0bac2de---54630124492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a74329e48520b89555f0275dc6e6581/51254892306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84685253221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee2eac99abd53fb168c66b8d8cfe96d4/napobowatozibufiwalirok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gf1p66g31rksrd32978omr6d3j/55102887705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608663bce2799---78211404369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d58405fae07718964b17e47e32600af5/kajuram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de91e4d1a3---vifuxerofamux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/9284097505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc075c5cd3---16987820825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fa754b94147485e348e87ecdf238458/86549771966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/1855540409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicotelecom.vn/static/source/images/file/38359387856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://developer.mastercard.com/mastIn PDF document text
    • 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f316.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF316 4480 bytes
SHA-256: 9ddcded39da68b678f07590cb962cf4f90b93289ff63266f65a588385601ca74
font_01_sfnt_off000102dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102DC 5280 bytes
SHA-256: 5248b7d4d62c57e959aad2f33a63bc7bd10604b6e963a695be2404e7d7234911
font_02_sfnt_off000114aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114AA 12360 bytes
SHA-256: b5ff06782383a8fd8eaa5bc514dbc1d8ecd09e30ba2e7c52b23c155053b92010