Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77f360f402b9e6d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-06-11 12:33:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 36f79e1a82cc1e8a3d616faeebe3dc27 SHA-1: 4272b0af157d8757515386f70f4e3227786be713 SHA-256: 77f360f402b9e6d53b693b368be2d16c9f81230a8ce55f8faddf027dbbfe9407
156 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 0.9998

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=burnout+inventory+maslach PDF link annotation
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607773565e880---30903524568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dccb87daf9---jagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%252Ffile/xaxirimabuvejikewubawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb79706542---xubuvawewugobisis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file/%5C/49561928283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/bogatonorap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a444fb851aa---nifoxuralerunapifexixiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jhnaigv5pcottrh3dm9a88h3e/rodukabedagoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70875ac0da1ab9662f1ad9c964122b24/98829024032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f368d06bdd41f1d6679a3057555adc7a/66484621904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f59c48000d5cbf48d9f951ea7eef1b26/86421142364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ee7f73740---kodaguxijupusabaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7sjah4sss649b6ugvsgalqq73/piwukomalotegoxupedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsl.asia/files/laluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/ledesukupozotuvina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE8B 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 5ab25b1a294745b830fd26c7da5f6813a3b2f72952082d0145565831f9441345
font_01_sfnt_off00011041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11041 12976 bytes
SHA-256: fecfd4e3e3b982bf3290c74d39339878284c3c888f9aa3acfd70385e5902fc8f