Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 985bbfda2bb68beb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-06-23 01:27:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: c65e9ddf8183c47e33fa1124503114ab SHA-1: f0b0f0470537a6664f45033a9174b82feb5b86a0 SHA-256: 985bbfda2bb68beb5bff579b72acd6b0f084d66acff4a1d724ae2f39578a5bc6
164 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. It uses an urgency-based lure. 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 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b8082a1ac---65913012371.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab15162e18a---zerofudate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c78fe94cc44de88e391c02f4c228c33e/18381354112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b68f85978142b102c2456a8137a3093/55623864747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f358975eab---nejufilakadakesixaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3307b0705a4fa42372755cebc7947be/71419658727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/90159066494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73f5721aeb---86443541541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/556aba77c14a78d669d11b570059b19d/89249211669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af0732159fa---boros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c0c3bcdf7---barizumewilodugoziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mkpllue3ragcm486j57hunfu16/xivetijavodatalema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a92c6eec28---38172904294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756f4e39ccb---82789975712.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=completed+performance+appraisal+formPDF 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_off00010766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10766 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 2ddc6ad63dfea8835c9f4981a73c2e6a903a7ba191f16b322b9d65869e1d0651
font_01_sfnt_off000118fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FB 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 81b589b4ecbcd119a77c797a3739cfce843ebcc61ac20e6625ad4f7b89b5d9aa