Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1be48ed2056cce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:59:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1b15929855a7f94bef7b94035f6c046e SHA-1: afe94d3c43f310b4b531b2d617098aacc4049886 SHA-256: a1be48ed2056cce9a78d8097c970052531be4fdeef31390c4ce3b4c96774b775
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a clipboard-command (paste-and-run) lure. 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 0.9981

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
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3b9836dbe5---tufawanenuvokodilupe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://betheaskssd.com/flash/betheaskssd.com/file/78302208577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/73701597344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtekelektrik.com/files/53381428560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villamishkan.com/310renonew/front/images/files/18208100716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickform.cz/obrazky/files/39426161798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mokhalasati.com/userfiles/files/zubokilobom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cf54d2fd47b6d63e9c013f749a77e3a/21043963157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aantfcaehjbxzf1m.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/bakizixobewubikadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qachs88.com/clients/58271/File/juvajugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crestviewshopping.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/47397833736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysidehigh65.com/clients/d/d0/d00d1ad1640c45b888f5e58ac216a5d1/File/99357009177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/84224653605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alirezamirmohammadi.com/images/upload/files/86401047659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infiniteprospects.com/FCKeditor/file/minugovaxujorat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a125511b7b5---xikudegavetuxutiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608211c783dba---66823653919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-engine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jajinoduwinis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1963.com/clients/7/75/758a827d59fb1c2827eec60421ffdc22/File/gigotenewirogawiboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430194644390720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ba00993ce---24467139728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/xediwiwudapubakijuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=save+pictures+from+pdf+filePDF 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_off0000d7aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7AA 10920 bytes
SHA-256: ffd06b9ddfb0d88c0ecbe4b8f7b01bb478a47541ffaf3486f21ea05950289b56
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F7 17408 bytes
SHA-256: f81822337f6eddc486278bde736d10e36c77df9358e8f130d0f337a7f2f7d484
font_02_sfnt_off00011de2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1