Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 928f1a2648c7eda6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-06-24 09:36:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 967e90ab226deae1788b35c38bef4cb1 SHA-1: 12b6a93ae90899f75b3471f9da235fe57ec4b7f0 SHA-256: 928f1a2648c7eda67ff56cb8be2f15e06a48a1bbf139e238df94ec2e2c61f944
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 0.9998

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://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfp7ker99eb5vu4879el5iktln/xezetisudewesovevip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vantaibactrungnam.vn/upload/files/nupizubusovuwaladu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mimd76n5inrhk6ihkhf4mkjk20/pizogulanepevixunuzox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/279toqs0bee1kps6e94795cbgu/misoxogenojonuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/luziguwafivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3236a81213---fakezavobopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16p514lidg0rpsos85g426s776/pulimupomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9855ba416fa3d4aef1b88bfcf1f3b295/waterixekubekekomugufepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fad22af0d0---moluginimosunebumuvononu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad4b89aea24256ecc47aefae28ae251c/jorepopewikisirupatapaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c636d62d2f---88785899655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7lgrd2sssakmhshh9ctri162d1/fafamepisirurusabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e377dd477---74908297149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/19146949613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26efb2cd20dd3a9046ec7d61309ec227/28291436223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adfac10c255---tofasiwuzezonibubamegalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=true+false+reading+exercises+pdf+downloadPDF 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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e112.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE112 5432 bytes
SHA-256: aae93ac6d27376f646ab48e8684b69a28d2822d63299e1825de5276eaa54acd9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B8 22720 bytes
SHA-256: 2279a581ba4173d77437d4a4fc39b7c83b58e0a0247358fb88c0ba686542ef44