Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a42827727224f32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:31:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 897af1a4b06416bc57bf9bd64d857f31 SHA-1: 427179f192b506aeb74169b28860acc7b0520924 SHA-256: 7a42827727224f328f609a364676e0e3ec2b81fd2a09c3e2c2e86d16d2a03429
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 0.9981

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://abctranslink.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuputubak.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/16447458808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/gipasolululosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-summer-courses.eu/upload/files/jubedaguxojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/fopimofavinod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.org/contents/files/46993601943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiercontractinginc.com/files/file/besugulesuvelelazaledup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vet-arrighicolangelicristilli.eu/userfiles/files/18139619200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210502140855_1557121938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abec528e400---fusuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f8e13f0a0---rateloramobisaxezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssk4k3aol0hh5jc97ffsfvbeq4/bigarobijosarikikerigepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1f068fc6a02e17c4e5ea5878e4a5a37/kimerepupole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3274433915265a22a980e69b713530c1/37229700877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68f2f4250fd6708780507d781e485510/77102108516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrewclaymonfishing.com/clients/a/a7/a7b0d980ee28df7184f998a87a00dbd5/File/wanumijawarimuxevuworevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d7bf8a60c---5232273147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4svpkq2vki1qe278jclfs78ds/nefiwotonefisovagudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/34764529461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enerjimakine.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/nuwujupibunixusulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shellserva.nl/docs/Image/file/99363166127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirmamedia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pegizirudedewaselo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ct.ait.ac.th/el21abst.htmIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=imrad+research+examplePDF link annotation
    • http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/essays/abstract.htIn 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://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_off0000de4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE4E 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 88b0cb146c46e36e2fe4c402561582c3ce795ef6ae1a49055465bc3530517030
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DB 18328 bytes
SHA-256: 6361e9b2e1ba6c13e4b0ca8de778f583cb29f30dabb78b286ad95f9f0d8be55f
font_02_sfnt_off00012594.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12594 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1