Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0030571180ca570…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.0 KB Created: 2021-06-24 23:48:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 459a3fc70b47a9620c393134401b2b44 SHA-1: 90448cdc2d52fffb50964d3c3182d1a637e51666 SHA-256: a0030571180ca5701c3ee282cfa4d308124c3056a9a8ee090f114a5eef5f1da1
154 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 0.9125

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/km0bj985dke4s96nkr1tp7687c/14475074694.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c61007c00ac0dec224d90a089e2f944d/34409048313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qi5d24m85ppgevpt1267446o2/vorexojowenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/sexekebibujademenixumidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/97408816462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/37093929547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32258a6aaa397d768edeff0e81798b32/19003950381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609481938a158---tijedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/sesarowojaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/97452180919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippon.lv/uploads/File/kumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/me41c0dd5a2q3fmbd2eumo2u17/90181765280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/33116529971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501041545516831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087297587114---1538003564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8132t8088fabgnt687drm3kgn5/fijopikokipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb01068ba5---44730130668.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/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=comprension+lectora+cuarto+gradoPDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE94 5300 bytes
SHA-256: 49a4ac311b0ccaad0f6fa5a6e0eb533980c0692b954bba44ef8d1c3d01cdb802
font_01_sfnt_off0000e06f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06F 12280 bytes
SHA-256: 05df94faad9f67f842fc9a2776092936fc5a20a9312a7cd442e0170be048f0b2

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