Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 814c8649bc84ba2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-06-18 22:37:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 562a724f0de8fd7be14589d376712474 SHA-1: 6f31b32898dd5c66c2a7155bdaf0056fe7958947 SHA-256: 814c8649bc84ba2e6fe60b11475acc7e576d580838ded0a5ea51cb8709db35d2
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 0.9996

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 http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7cbb0a461---5659657432.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elturo.ru/img/upload/files/71386593486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64625c0d5d---begipajowusimaxipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9d7chd38ev28638c8lrjs2og6/36720155690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/dobisijefojaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/85300963629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vun4o267vh1r5jfkn4un6pjo2/61999913806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/5985184662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607420b83a0b2---97380372404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f079d5214---80253578952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b390a33e4857d35ba185084232cbe345/regutute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64358908503ed3baef1dfac103a4239b/18824864989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20b8f92eb7---nirukokok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60ee53b4f2384e9f3a2b6cb360e82be/42140428923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=uluslararas%25C4%25B1+ili%25C5%259Fkiler+kitap+pdfPDF 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
    • 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_off0000e015.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE015 5036 bytes
SHA-256: cc40026cb1caed1e3de7f45fb27fdf272c0489f0fd63f39da0ac2638d8038fe3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C3 11912 bytes
SHA-256: 2880d7f80969fbcd2e7dd854d47fff73db34c32bb4a11e76c50e0fc1ab6709d2
font_02_sfnt_off000115f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F1 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 7e0863d6dcdfe3ce59f67395a06e5e8634226e44f713773c85e494ff6d119ee1
font_03_sfnt_off00012b6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B6A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333