Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96eb08a058a14f35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-06-01 14:37:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 144efd455be3b6874bbd42d8b48449d9 SHA-1: f958d3def27ea2a7e8b8b86dd176319f9e8697a2 SHA-256: 96eb08a058a14f3502dc527cacdb6ab689340568917da7c2576e388e5e42e2de
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 http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/dedilomimawovudufew.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759e965e320---69785634947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eed979a8a0---7075150114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/jakiteduxowujave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/62342011695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1054a5c8340ef097c085c2b5cf7473d/divajanaguvanadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lf0s99j4nnbeu5hq65mbtvgdu9/gesedejivolopinabigurifad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f559b630da6de89b15d0c8dc14a7d5ea/vofowizojuxivefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/jusejexenawoxuvuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77bd688110a038d8b0252f8eb334245c/saralutirefokixuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/47114412116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/vupitige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ca01624b53dca0dc51385846a3e9f77/31036211701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607765992d05f---6143458725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ico3uc0ecronncbhko3bvjj1v6/rivutufijogakene.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/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=metric+conversion+practice+worksheet+with+answersPDF 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_off0000d7eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7EB 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 5b11c26e910a5d0cce366120d1226bbb3d2caf92baa0db180baf685b18c2b694
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9BF 9448 bytes
SHA-256: 048f6e75b3aaf5b1b0b2ac6e74fc442c36f79b2e80486823a8109216a79555ff