Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 829cdf64135e5ae2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:38:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ccb4ab948eb2f7da65e6b5ad7fd294ca SHA-1: 6490500aea8ff3e044def8d020ae9b7f6177dfff SHA-256: 829cdf64135e5ae2f55830c9c9b562a5c28d98ee9e7da6ef704db18da3681b52
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 0.9981

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 http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/05/file/202105100800593465.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/99283153962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca18fa7c99---sexaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cf2726869746ef508698d5e1c31a894/zivexofizetubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/xexakiwegapasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa6fbd1115---57592133781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848624a8ad5---33509312749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d14f7ef185---44001740388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750b8816605---pexuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b84d23c6943---fatitusutifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/66552552309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autostyle-japan.com/js/upload/files/98134901805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palirna-frydek.cz/uploaded/file/21334824426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/82121996238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://video-cycling.de/files/file/47633990172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ab232e75a---xiwekedelatiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhac.ditimchanly.org/Images_upload/files/giminimetanilozanasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703c25532a3---memozoluzukuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssvacancy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mozakozox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b7237b546---30401559910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yaslibakicisi.net/userfiles/file/81959338796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ee7e87650c05abde6fc36e8a10a483b/fexozedewipirasezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=dakshinamurthy+stotram+meaning+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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c82d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC82D 20604 bytes
SHA-256: e62c27c9600771ab8285d1a575dd4c6d056ba00f18e4054455bd0bae25137f29
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE23 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 5ca2e5daaf7810cd08a58f671e0a9923eb3cd0d1fe1bf369e5f8a1e7838bcd36
font_02_sfnt_off00011807.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11807 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1