Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bc1cd47ce5cf0ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.1 KB Created: 2021-05-27 16:15:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: ace5f6d3d000ad9ab059b3455f0a78e9 SHA-1: d37aebee3b72c47d663bd9671fbf13d376cffa27 SHA-256: 7bc1cd47ce5cf0ffd1be5de4d0415ffc05b03e0ecd6dc193ba1bf0a2694b8412
196 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 password-protected-archive 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-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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 http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/43871927496.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a73f04954---57415108236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vaeg62ih8on2b25d6rq18mv3td/27607161544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/5923462575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c92a7efe2e6ba6409fef97e655f7526/nelasovuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v538jaaubgp4ob4n4shap5j7od/19206823147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ndte80g1lq3pltdqo6ltbclip3/jajimugew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fa3de138a73c5510aba59bc408ca0f8/31048743810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/75665883615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf3e059058---27269537925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9e801ba3a7d130b25865d51a332caaf/48587863690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/473cb369adbd2942d754783aec3e1500/351710098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c526aca936---38492403475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a73ee90f134ed7751a61f518a2b6ed4/56142820089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a892c6805fed4fd1bfb4e0cd53cdc3d4/59539992079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/27761039133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=foster+carers+handbook+bradfordPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000166e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166E8 5236 bytes
SHA-256: d209b6cdf5c56bd545098d3eeca8dfb026a75821285281a9c49a322241a1c705
font_01_sfnt_off000178b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178B5 12640 bytes
SHA-256: 502868bd51c96c38fb84e34936915356f6bd8d59235992228c21756471dbdcef