Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1901c81a5d5e187…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:05:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 01bebe4fdae09ff8fd688e40563fb737 SHA-1: e3ce45f0be1a4405798c9c99229ef1ee83d80513 SHA-256: a1901c81a5d5e18795705b5d9c66866f08a9d069614eca84161112e0c98a0aa2
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 0.9933

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 http://ytlcases.com/userfiles/file/43342310644.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3395a42af9---99347412626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sellmysayarah.com/userfiles/files/91257780737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indyztyle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/876885720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhsclassof70.com/clients/d/d1/d13f49183e6b2ef720c1f353b43de0f2/File/derine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaishachuukobuhin.com/js/upload/files/34586665683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qbuy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/98006078770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6todd044n491v9rah4ca5gvpao/88823148155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/tipibijizesogipajita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729b69896fd---pasojose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b08b3398e2f20fb584b60b0a7b7552c4/dalosiladalelirinija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///polurujonezegexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/rataposiponeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/90179868953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nada70.org/userfiles/file/46810399414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c9529d3c8---1120169648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/89743043380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/48998141721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebestpearsonfamily.com/clients/e/e6/e6a49a9b6fa3fb0349b1957bd02e8b5b/File/20442960837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/56508867401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/17584058579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ms41d9ur0h08p88agh83a3v0nu/17701966179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/userfiles/files/4859943302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ef0180a269---4054477252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+resueltos+de+analisis+horizontal+y+vertical+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bb8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB8A 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 2d78d05ef6364f89ca637e383fb29997274b1b876d620a98e737ff211ee72370
font_01_sfnt_off0000d59c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD59C 17104 bytes
SHA-256: e38426f0e5e2094aa38a0a1fd914aedbdeb462d88785eb183de8c35d54f723e3
font_02_sfnt_off0000eeee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEEE 18032 bytes
SHA-256: c1665751e48131393efebf1ea294c0b0dcaba2bc90534c3c814f778287acd474
font_03_sfnt_off00011c8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1