Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a028501a50d4fb16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-06-13 23:47:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 7689f5b607794cca600d8c78df1cb3b1 SHA-1: d74ed3cfaacaa576e06cab73b7c06350b2e5e3a1 SHA-256: a028501a50d4fb16df627a1ee3f639179c26c2dc21120321d44ffda0e65d53e9
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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=alice+in+wonderland+reading+comprehension+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/kukapazobuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8816061db1---jepogimogurojasepuveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/tesavexofiguxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73d40a41b4---vezufipidudofironuxetew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948228bab2d---74328545494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba43c8ae4e---71925595143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mq5s5unc737lradtgquiarf94i/dudezezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0h44jhp9e6lrmhoclssstjpub1/8303432350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edea42e2a3---gowewukike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcb68b49e9---73778747230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/mifatopoxegikatipetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/1273354544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cb5ee8e2d55ec2440b892ae34325caa/xibumuwotupagodokiwifotiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/30655534393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/demawedapafowixozuxafejeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d273d02f9ca06eba9752e88714843a42/82969751336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD29 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 0a4143291eac9249329b5467723b12d53c44c95d5fa5250f38301d5b5f0eb692
font_01_sfnt_off0000df30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF30 11316 bytes
SHA-256: 754f0759eaa57f0e2265298a7d08bc206e627d1e3e3574833de22e2eee3f529c
font_02_sfnt_off000105a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e