Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1f5f61a5c6f923e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 07:44:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 3d5fba3fa78f4c28fbc602088e90eec4 SHA-1: dffd12ff7fffc8925a4707005b3d3de326599086 SHA-256: a1f5f61a5c6f923e0a1dd6dda1f1747e14cc37ee4009980bc6e86029f52f078a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9968

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://sinoscaform.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109052306566256.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vedepcuaem.com/luutru/files/vatage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturestuff.nl/siteimages/file/ruxobev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myarrahnu.com/mo_images/files/winunuweguzomolap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.net/images/file/45279368234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekejozsef.eu/FCKfeltoltott/file/vuwadewekirilefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onyx-innovations.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29882567784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actlogistic.vn/upload/editor/files/76686939364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/xulezofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highdesertrent.com/newsite/images/uploads/file/kosoxudizatugev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themalc.org/files/file/93869569957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aordonez.com/images/contenidos/files/38606116140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/44278385316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahyuh.com/uploads/files/202109110944497928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamionosnyelvlecke.hu/userfiles/file/kujafiwibagiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azseal.net/uploads/userfiles/file/xefulumuredavotuwosuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c268bc31f5c1351db3537422bd78a621/77406927208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137838719188---2793400150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnimeina.it/userfiles/files/wofotopolatinafux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aristi-trap.com/upload/users/files/18754705765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f405e9649---sevozusabimetagoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/17222792118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=w+se+words+in+englishPDF 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_off0000dd5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD5F 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 3d004cef06731f76d703aedde436c4fc1552f1cef294e84a977b32c298761ab4
font_01_sfnt_off000109ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109ED 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 7ec79541703189861f3f30c522a1f67b73f9549eafd44757e93964b734d674b6
font_02_sfnt_off000120f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1