Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98e12742133164b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:45:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 4d871dd50557bbfaf9c439843aeabd3b SHA-1: a21342301a79f2468a77fca9711ba53379141445 SHA-256: 98e12742133164b128cd7d445f925dbb4df60e2465df2a3c9b51c55fb9394ae2
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 0.9937

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://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c69930d7e6c2063472a6b763ffa955c/56391061733.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff7dc33945---97037045224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/027abcf281cba5582fa551ecefaa8fdc/96809444061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rux-thai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47000266380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles//files/10322852973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhvi.com/upload/files/32792576431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48e27bf999---45588225249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/49595785122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/deguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/10190310067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87763bc41d---7798350328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b122daad5---13742699785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160925cd134437---79313925531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eadae5793b376fa1929b7b6e7f8055f/64895690759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087100f9acbf---54515301306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608399478841d---raremovoxejagekeximov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/pored.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb2ee73449---pekuxetoxukudidogijunaduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94483a8103---49854113845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/47032284681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cpf9r6urtcp2q5b97l1ipv87c4/74244648229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3e2268382---punikotumasona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/kopumobabokoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=grown+ups+production+companyPDF 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_off0000faaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAAA 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 6bbffbd7e143f220519d8a5f8440eb4cab99f217fcd15fff1cfaba7ac038cc17
font_01_sfnt_off000113c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113C1 16840 bytes
SHA-256: 2a01b4acc957958a8ce9df9500cf888edda02cb00fcf8bab3ac7fd828faffbec
font_02_sfnt_off00013faa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1