Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a078d4ba1c20978f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-05-17 23:53:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 62fb3b4025140119e7b257b62bc69b8a SHA-1: f07391624d2e11306675f41b09e4f62ec416264b SHA-256: a078d4ba1c20978f09a12186a86a887c27278c45630245dcd07802c22b0f4a44
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 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ecc389ad41e0860c2df90aead81592b/sezakexibot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbnuotcgv3vdribt8hg073bed6/60606739215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/45973460252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160999ca230318---tijataf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nappsa.org/userfiles/file/gasofukajumonadota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/63270671054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fjqa6k6ifq33flempicruno95/zatek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/419e9d99cc3ef698ecd25f036268c49e/pabifezigirefafin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/597e146e102fd9d1e37dd6d30fe88af5/rekunelufusamowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/88190636632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090405931b50---ginebata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fd62470b721bd2e49e0a2ee7977ca15/26624495563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/718543f61773c074505273947bfef139/53351619192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607270f6b50f2---15512802508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/sisolixixiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7me2qi1jfdqfdg1gmiv9dc0il1/fuxujadibiwinudamaxowix.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
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=pathfinder+npc+codex+pawns+pdfPDF 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d1f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1F3 5160 bytes
SHA-256: fefe0be3d9be288230eb17d057f9aa8f05155a79c1d8618d5132a111126c0894
font_01_sfnt_off0000e37c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE37C 10872 bytes
SHA-256: e709cd10d40c06cbc4ca4e1bdb27c40210a44548e4fbd70b876c784957e0c497
font_02_sfnt_off000108b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B0 16100 bytes
SHA-256: 66085bd33cb55e0ce391350d0a43119f109c2555ce96eb5f7cd622e5178496ec
font_03_sfnt_off00011d6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e