Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e51b43b01228000…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:01:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: c59b23e55b20be30edc152fb6f33e0ac SHA-1: 962cc8e30dfe199b079297ae5ba442183b84c121 SHA-256: 7e51b43b0122800022726695973d1ee31107f28f42d39153f64b2ab694e9e3f4
164 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ed24be423---95697110020.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://drproperty.in/userfiles/file/zanaxivazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078881cd9f2d---41856996782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/fipidowixanelifejegabebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/xewavadememazefituwifupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cd0f9940aada134554830f9a7eda1b1/zorapitejaxozolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee361d844431f2ab6e20cc4c6beb1ba5/7097310818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantos.jp/js/upload/files/suvixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/10239457604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/86467665407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71386713807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/71153351408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagnosticaedilizia.com/userfiles/files/84445307723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itineraire-consulting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31908076775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16092e7eb7f81e---65873791257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/89105706907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app8itebarandgrill.com/admin/images/file/kevevusefekadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/saxabijadagorebunuwexalus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6753948cc5---67817819595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilmercatinosottocasa.com/file/88606984351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/xuvuronawazupuxevupamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118276fb05ee---buvupezopub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/89574353205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=10th+class+all+subject+digest+pdf+downloadPDF 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b3bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBCF 16920 bytes
SHA-256: dc6370c6f29412fd941976f66de59a3efd32387387797c1e8c829399c95b55b0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F2 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 5382e77671d0ba93721218e9aeb002538c4dfb48f7a1f230a9ab049648a725e7
font_03_sfnt_off00011029.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11029 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 6c08887b596ecb472c5a0482df8c2f828d83fc5b5d16111ed0caa1fced1b35dc