Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a10bcd592a58a240…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.6 KB Created: 2021-06-19 20:50:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 66afc85d20111edef80940d365b03a27 SHA-1: 8f6d4740afa0c121fad6e6743a4057abe1547566 SHA-256: a10bcd592a58a2404ead812c048f24be0593671db83aaa5e0540964e45a5758e
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://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d862379db5d78f803701de05154a648/85053688795.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/mimunosebozotitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stdtekstil.com/upload/ckfinder/files/85392317599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/doxawikaxulizufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b658e6758---91192353079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movementlab.dk/userfiles/file/49848817697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kids-ex.com/80327949020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/bolapixele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/84035521043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/53753674025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sezitareteroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/42948385229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f135dde346583f1a63c3e8693014744/womewafitepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kcdm655nqs00ujiv7epldks2i9/74744463840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sktsgo7331787r967p9kvjbvld/musowizajovinasugudat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b13cfd88239---99035081299.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/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=why+did+frida+begin+paintingPDF 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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000156dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156DC 5348 bytes
SHA-256: 127ae7fa70786c614a41d87c5619e893c539bcd2db443a8e40a8d2acc265ff32
font_01_sfnt_off0001691c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1691C 11420 bytes
SHA-256: 4c31b6a921ccbb89276be9a5665db470815b9070665e13d450f2b0e162cf657e

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