Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1aabc611445f423…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:19:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a0ce7ac8aff58e340c9c11defea420f8 SHA-1: 829b809cda254adafc6f853a6096d8c0baac6174 SHA-256: a1aabc611445f42311caecfaf1dd8e1e9280e232bfd26e29c7fc6cf2ef15e66e
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 0.9931

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://darec.sk/files/files/pominemideb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://henghuitong.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210708163723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a3306f2d56---63710559370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/94260936237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/todubogina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210627041241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modellszerviz.hu/userfiles/file/juliposizaxenuzizoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/1620476741344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/welutejufokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.vn/uploads/image/files/xuboxakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegneriarossi.it/userfiles/files/lupixupevabogatepawijuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bedd4f7204bddfdefe2db59bc1362de/funukopovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.com/upload/fckimagesfile/49554737824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbdaf7ac1e---41502686130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5b2574bf8b---xamogazivesixogafidatixob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/logerosebusidafigum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopsrus.aerovents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wujebivepuvifosamin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e46oer532g6de06et74urbauc0/rujofupapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d06c77fd8096631fb97c2898dfb5c8b2/39213349739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d104b7fdb---7506010722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agmatbaa.com/upload/files/jetuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076225aa0993---62435288648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d63a9386675a9ce8eab153a113cc357b/90030865407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=building+skills+for+the+toefl+ibt+beginning+listening+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_off0000c30b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC30B 21600 bytes
SHA-256: 76fdad75a9b5718da5a44af78febea9a8e9045e895cbb5a276113f8d46205b29
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011281.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11281 11000 bytes
SHA-256: bfb5d55d8e5b218fd22c0264ea1d467e1d6e800a91abc4db97832a0d5138bc2b
font_03_sfnt_off00012b8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B8D 16244 bytes
SHA-256: fddcbe21bdf9fb2753729b4ab5b26d7a3fbb01e3fe51d41ab0725360e25c189d