Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a033d70b0f31b4f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB Created: 2021-06-06 11:51:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: fb12876d9ab8ebdd682e780873de804f SHA-1: 927e5c6593715a6770fe3a3500cbab531c92452d SHA-256: a033d70b0f31b4f815fcb8a320795bdb0a0b90e9c6ab21006bd8bc6347eea5a4
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 0.9997

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+build+a+5+shelf+bookcase PDF link annotation
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e8c37d348---1439253501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/78152592742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file/%5C/numulemufelevutemevan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vegn1ldhmjtq82kcih3bvsfls4/64042769507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viginetajalijolubitaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0vote.com/ckfinder/files/wekurutifiwovizozow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b8b0544d07d443f9fbb8322de0d1805/98004695062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//38510697586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sb0e5scmk72ooe7s9d6rj6aa0k/fomimuzapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g45kcrfpol85vd4bcdh5640vbn/44029170500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210603050152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9fd22626b644c74608afb0f4a0e5082/74893875893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f10e3cee6d3f8cf633cd4b63a6157594/lufizog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/gimifes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/760c45c2f4c339fe903c430a5d3fd76c/25222174945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off00013cb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CB9 2952 bytes
SHA-256: cb9072f881c1fe0ad8900bbcc5a20a23fabb306412f64e001cac76c2a9509f2c
font_01_sfnt_off00014748.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14748 5392 bytes
SHA-256: ef6e24e0a145391bafa4e54269f7552e4cc2e12d482017a34a51e1d845b96bfd
font_02_sfnt_off000159ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159BA 11744 bytes
SHA-256: f66fde2124bcf2ffc30c27a6d4c4f5fcc9106ab5d6e77a90a378229c48b3c28c