Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 896654a80954f5a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:19:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: ea3baa235f5bb73b946e158f7faa7191 SHA-1: 0b506e6649dbd7030e0205dc7ca33ef5cb71e605 SHA-256: 896654a80954f5a85a40a32c1056e5078497b0e987abfef44238e7e4a2c319df
156 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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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 https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a8b89a6d8e---3314279509.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eucolait.eu/userfiles/files/jaguwuvof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_1871C4FAB55C69D5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/dafixepasinisem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/xozapevari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cb70f38c5---28860298301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160961a22cbf05---48864783319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpoolandsauna.com/user_img/files/zoxovapisajaretidoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snbedu.com/uploadfile/file///2021082921533324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigaintan.com/contents//files/33364260129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126e9fde0242---11897569870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmetrix.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokodizifogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/nagepebipojexujalos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/486b04ca1faba7a6abb2ef1aaeae3a40/jekojesilugoxizimaxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8p10qemqnforb3p03dk4es50s/19853704906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab13ab389a3---jumolomokagipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/disabuvodejimopuwutig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/msgreq36nnb097c0arar9hrn5t/xejurosoxudodijojume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-1commercialkitchenservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ravigusojifilixerilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79fc3bdc2dad46dca3ee72bfab96bd17/gufunuxisim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/wemukajaparukariladozoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607527c618b0c---59071733764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7a0909aba---15484994458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huefpdf.org/upload/file/95455545086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jsup4nl6dm6an7g54s8v5tolsr/nesixejomefunarojad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+freedom+writers+diary+pdf+en+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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_off0000d81c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD81C 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 730edd714f355ec8b22d6f3e2e897c326048193c18530d31ab6cfb8102b4d744
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B9 19460 bytes
SHA-256: 40b036a10a9725dc342df2701dd2bbb7885562ee98141459795ed8139f558db2
font_02_sfnt_off000123ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1