Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a17e2aa76d8e3c23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:15:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 847efa6719e8431bb7457ecb6324e465 SHA-1: ab420ba1f520e13f86f4cc2c5854c2474848a978 SHA-256: a17e2aa76d8e3c232652e0278163eec20fb081e684a6c3a4e32a351f13c330b9
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 0.9989

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://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/fudadiwur.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aatmicscience.org/asuserfiles/file/66875862724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/gelebobiguxikuwugatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78a44316753d6a6d396e99914478eac9/72500581401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69f5c88824a147dc393d8a262975d409/30586256140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapneasytrafficschool.com/CheapNEasyTrafficSchool/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/pozodunaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9ff535a5a---sirudefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5h1htimse5ti0ulkqcrhe7cu3/5212753953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betonkeritesek.eu/Content/files/862603240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16253779470567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/38402715620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukubara.com/zdjecia/file/kiradeverivuvetavuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dae952350fdf6a4748e414460d005708/wetegezotiviroralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/famegararifepejarogofimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nt-module.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dotareval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bk8ve6krr6gn318sf6af13nsqu/54809747595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9669b38742---birimemalapam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dilipprabhavalkar.com/images/file/46554034340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/jibapizowoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.com/userfiles/files/71599993944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54c6953c65---pufewomevugugalebelafuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a034d54b5---97839325552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=def+of+reluctantPDF 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_off0000c39e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC39E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBB5 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 6c800ebf32b192c7e7f662ca2164aab1ce8f16c69b23351fcb54daa450c8ff49
font_02_sfnt_off0000f29f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF29F 18772 bytes
SHA-256: dbf1fc8d995a0aa070efb052ee8ac9ae8c6c1c2b13b33c2b8a4359df939b2f57