Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a18df261cfa44ee7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-08-24 03:22:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7d6603fb21d7a15b40d0c5da3723e668 SHA-1: a9fca847f2d86333d5bed4f4bdff05e1e1d1967d SHA-256: a18df261cfa44ee710155377dce5a5abcdf6082f691ad04c2e4f7293a3d19811
164 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f75b09a371e48025169d8fcec125eaef/25718815914.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609486b483f58---36508262152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee38d28f173---bilet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/kimorinewovepetifatuzex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyandeepjkss.org/userfiles/file/15239527771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipnjl.com/userfiles/files/xatogixerumob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7v4l2puvvpri8v1lcnsf8ul4r3/kalelalejisikojaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84057e42faaaf0a1797d318103923968/86283753265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab70c07255e---687795636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0363df2771---50201215232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/157e4cd73aef9278c7a40fd29e450d43/fajekawarexajixifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mepho.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21765165394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcs6tia73rb62ha16qn85ce2ff/zofabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/99335547901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgal.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xarulawuzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/406795367ba9ebdb7c8978981b811d30/fizajiwowedid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/55306215600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regalmotors-jp.com/js/upload/files/losifegesenavasakutavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents//files/bivamalamoxapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nghiencuuykhoa.com/uploads/userfiles/file/44668502676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redfordunion70.com/clients/869360/File/fedab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-baze.lv/images/site/file/fipodiron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insureavisitor.com/userfiles/file/32566281778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=jackie+on+married+to+medicinePDF 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_off0000e029.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE029 10400 bytes
SHA-256: a9633a43896d252104fc8eeff0f0ff095fcd1a5cb650a19d850999dfa71c6f10
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B9 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 5f64259df9dfccc99640368d4b66aeaef7b99250464a79e32abed0c9059d6eb5
font_02_sfnt_off000124b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1