Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 827825bc1a36acd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-06-10 17:17:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 246f82c20141906f5cb5b7585103c8de SHA-1: 8c3bcf4c42835221a3d7b3d039d0816d2f637620 SHA-256: 827825bc1a36acd3afaf1eeed57fd53d41233140cc398eeee684d6c4fdfc6834
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-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=danza+kuduro+song+download+mp4 PDF link annotation
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-12/20210512103306687353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6aad71c886b0dac7eaef0f8b26ec030e/86697991756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3f04c76d4---78326860930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744962d2be4---23705927269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/11086125439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b5dc564fac9c6ccd3ae5ea1435707e0/85743339646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/tobevutubabebupixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lm47q7pnsgfugm0kgqlc19b344/musifuvobodulebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29a34f2d043ef4d33dd3011a70ec510d/xarufasekosusedogiguguviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0dd3392e42---62442032058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/68660246915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c6c21fff84b0f95ef6583b64cfed975/seragomokupukijeluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/biremabofelawax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807a498208f---kilexigunapusisiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/11602971800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02ddfccf64bff58b4c0d3dc8ee89b96a/16075304943.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
    • 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_off0000f150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF150 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 941a742078f03c3ed8f749bab8f837b46cb300c8ad074966d5eee44629490809
font_01_sfnt_off0001030b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030B 13408 bytes
SHA-256: fa3e6e50a306a4d10d26edd9cbe1b9b92dba892c6156b34015a650a2e7fbfe0f
font_02_sfnt_off00012d9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D9F 18488 bytes
SHA-256: a18727caef033835bc681d2655565eba93129ba51b841857284d36fc4ca88a3d
font_03_sfnt_off00014abb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14ABB 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361