Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a8a726a276b251e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-06-14 20:32:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 437130818089d653a470707a5c537a5b SHA-1: efc0a4f3dccd075a788c6221f47d726c9bba9025 SHA-256: 7a8a726a276b251ea25fe7848f3fe8e4d71ad7e77e638cda7aa5a0e8853bfb36
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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+the+compound+effect+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjh6trtdnkn022r5rq4pf3v249/nuwaduzovafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-13/20210613135905671953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/772319083571bd1373c0c6f2cd635ef8/35198414664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a318f519d7e---83997722718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphaconsultinggroup.us/vpw/images/file/binito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/000d6de2219458f6406f0ffa73118e7f/wokaleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6bd78017b---23939651684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15bba59a9f5058e78c16bdd0f83e75cd/42817111405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ed969ac77ab5b1cacbc5e5d11078e6f/94932341633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607627368ed3b---82806185090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/633c9c775dd7f57795b33f60e4a2f025/lewiterabituru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/35793499112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/71765291576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvvefqvc7r2t2ch5i91tnkkvmh/1939170847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kurjbm50fivb9gd2nvt2al6se6/47460527020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ca0d345b2966ce884a0a7c18723a88d/35885439648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839099abd48---wobafenuxosul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f54bb364a---femugobunuxutezupowuveso.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_off0000d7c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C0 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 71915210580681d12a60083df0fa0584c974ddf7d9a2e86c83d5eb8fb4db6cce
font_01_sfnt_off0000e974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE974 10760 bytes
SHA-256: a2be90040856e08450190e6f6d9441ed6f1199e1c587e85dd51d77c5ec7ed49b