Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 966862ad97d5530d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-06-09 09:56:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 5c857ee9bb949b74fc10f2fb282cba7e SHA-1: b30203de9c25eb40a94846bfd738ebe12c8dcbb8 SHA-256: 966862ad97d5530d9f251d78836841b889212fb64b75f2fe2eb29e9eefe2fc95
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-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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=envision+algebra+1+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b98711a39112f90478352011c1b2c2b1/derixuxogezumobegiguxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/wufisegizerubiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c63754718d---43560474449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c00c3b94dd1---wiliwodozor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2babfee5ffbc8d3ffd43496ccb9e738c/kurove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a622d4ed0d8---sewelitufekib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5df4019dcbb6edd180a52ba98c3c32b9/fadezukusatejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079aed1adfac---pofepisumewurujowujaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097df13212ba---zeluxazaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077261cebc12---44938245151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc751a1186---tovexeninafuretagewetot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/29575282984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/66528235880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000d26a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD26A 3096 bytes
SHA-256: a97acd6999945b68b5dc4a23d3ec843fccf11c94dd98fbf4cbac0085e010dc8b
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD8E 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 653782601eb7d4c9b9b084605c58a5580930b312bc032f755e6cd4f4869affdd
font_02_sfnt_off0000efbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFBB 11452 bytes
SHA-256: 731bb26863f22af9ff5253fd8af0b595d95bb49517373f84b138f589f61fcec3
font_03_sfnt_off0001169d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1169D 16400 bytes
SHA-256: 08a4bb6ffff2c0e0dde21756c0a47dc22778edf4d88101f5225835a11951dfba