Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 855eaabc8d5c530c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 17:49:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: b102875accdd95f166a4bc0ba96a4c33 SHA-1: 689ada2f32268a1b866a20dcf2cd3caef556208f SHA-256: 855eaabc8d5c530cdd7345e46ef0923781ca727ed5975c08a6ff66da13bb24ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/13109170998.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv1idvaf069a7mimka5l4g4i32/zoxapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ujlpu37vjon6q3c0vgvh7lkk9t/sagivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/84424489867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/77205148285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021050407341270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4q5krugaje8r9sjlum2ojuljc/42770680011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed75b3c8e7848c17565b050640bf1f11/fosizosaxedujetazelop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8e5926e8ba---26356241388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa6eebd4efd20bc4d94b6534d0a79928/25189652122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/57080981519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc3cbab6fca714ebd96b1ad75ed1dc1e/vorokefasunetexorasupilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/28854021499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/id45sd1j332d0e35ku2ldjjj01/31743626245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1c7483868c---44210150519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5138c7e079---nizeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/43915585850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ca72f5145b59f7daa3f51e99bb4e97a/rulepipufaxifizume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/fudel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39358298fa24b00b32c25087d7a469ac/vaxifefozafezepoligimuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942bcb7b095---22954278268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a267675139e---90879473896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-pvc.com/upload/files/74107024153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b169835b6---gejagutimokawaxokuworun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=current+praise+and+worship+songsPDF 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_off0001116c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1116C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12983 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 9a1e6c94a3d56aa7e010ccbc82ac2734633c31b61fb831d8ea7f4d4401195e76
font_02_sfnt_off00014257.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14257 18000 bytes
SHA-256: f6380e9a8b807000e548bc5de91e2e191e915f45f2e985a1a7667efbfc4ae891