Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0d356a6eeab2bcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:06:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 21a4cba1e03da9879b6f07787a5788a2 SHA-1: 88bdb6637f5fca1b65d5749c2e00113c6388d720 SHA-256: a0d356a6eeab2bcc8b321183c6c600e1d1e1bdd8b4282235ce5ecae8d9cbbfbf
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 0.9975

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 http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0af3101180---galiravokosoxosopuxoku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lc0r3c9r963u8h4e8h5rg1i0h4/73252847082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/54118609489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://design-klasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bujibad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onfireinteriors.com/userfiles/koguzumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverla.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/fakesig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxethai38.comupload/file/88263606586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valkexclusief.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/88520440113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608396838d69a---38784098677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cke.hk/userfiles/45470969066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3a419ed8fd---lirezaturute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccspatti.org/userfiles/file/23360887127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32977678402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://focostrade.com/files/20210620012905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/gidilipupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070185583d97---51919784672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanmemerp.vn/attachment/files/xulasukezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/luseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/jalifotopunubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nppmaudaha.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/monirinedavofipubarevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/gurolefavebanexumokota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fed5f40ea16---zosogagixuwutewejiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cdf9b89c3---sejudapedagilesikezara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=physical+and+chemical+properties+of+water+worksheetPDF 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_off0000ce0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE0B 17984 bytes
SHA-256: 555f698c5456443f7f7f9eb170dbe4c261aab0844cbabe2dbc65a154cc656f67
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBBA 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 7531498f52cac060a7b62e70da0ca673c925eb1411c29d34f34ce71f59b293b7
font_02_sfnt_off000115c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1