Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a16d1054ad252304…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-06-19 17:05:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: ce8dc11b109688d6fe98385ddc09952f SHA-1: 55439ea434178ff0c092621ae76f9504645886ac SHA-256: a16d1054ad2523044b33d31bc978f70c79a07166509332a0383a1e4e5ef35ed3
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://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1f776b52e---95076963348.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lb6jatt9n3jnnsoqgskp0fjt3p/pepaxavopunixijewixuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckd-otto.com/contents//files/50281442084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/gigozuselududilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/96583395414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceomit.com/fckupload/file/94133844495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/rukotofesasotolubet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6o68mcn17bbfshamq5ppkb0huk/lipodimugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/5632719585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourjamesfamilyhistory.com/clients/1/14/146a9f92d0a296c7c29e793db058bb30/File/42028579297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98f5511c6c29b1b22544ebe6cb0401c5/fosikefomabewaburafukeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mauchlineware.com/html/chapelstreet/web/userfiles/files/13372174109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608710e339a47---regisebonodakezutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/kijuxapafopajogujaxo.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://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=yeh+dil+kyu+toda+kyu+toda+ye+dilPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c3eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3EB 4544 bytes
SHA-256: d3271a165da480fa07407205579f4a0d77ecc7147e7e728c99cd6dcd92acf1b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000d36d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD36D 11336 bytes
SHA-256: 1b3bdccd13f7f6cc5017e6da32b13c9372ba70f753fd90f35bbf5ca2eecf5520
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA10 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
font_03_sfnt_off00010811.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10811 3412 bytes
SHA-256: f2f3fc4d1b96660e6f364800ba0507dfaed29cfb4215aa2a2d91d9e30e53043e