Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a18970459a3e2940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:06:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 27d8f95cd5cb375cd8e477f4a45c0ce6 SHA-1: 9bec86e844eb2322e91e239574d2f8a8100bc46c SHA-256: a18970459a3e2940d91e610c352073bf151f466b00ce004e4009a52c8676e7d7
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 0.9835

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=statistical+analysis+with+arcview+gis+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/61955010387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mueblesgamez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nubagefujoxegagixev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorlookup.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dasotevevavoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gqssqa6up9i244sc77ab27bqah/86800838693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio5r.com/userfiles/files/kurato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rodolphe-blanchet.fr/Rodolphe/fckeditor/file/gumibakodiwutemoxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayatrosetta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akh1us5kfcp6icdd2ankfpg4lh/ropapiwagudak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/zizatofaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/39588633067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/zevazuviwefesebix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntouioc.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70228192882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0690acf6f---dedogaxibidowida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/82377309566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30618a4fda---kitozewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puppometalli.eu/file/wisixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/jironemis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ru8qmca48nth52fjsmti72fgt1/kemipuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botorka.ro/userfiles/file/43098228686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8571cd3cb83ea3e45ca60f9e62bd52d3/lativorepufivisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/33255672035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/kopapawado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c09b12bea14---nalutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d95418dc11c00d841db73ec20b6cf9b3/linubawiribes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/lekabegegawejelafal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd33e17d27cf9ce5cfe8ee41d21921fa/26389650274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf37aaca28---74032557410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eda8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA8 18604 bytes
SHA-256: a84edb7aef94ff16ee7a213abab2f340b8b2c35baadbddec151990d06ab4e7da
font_01_sfnt_off00011df1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF1 11120 bytes
SHA-256: c3c8ec3558ad5a8bd433091f3155cf2ac09c2afd0d728d41906e0dd2dc3a035c
font_02_sfnt_off000137a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1