Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2879e445d0c98a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-07-18 20:03:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0e80cc782b13373952f5ac0fec307c60 SHA-1: f7bbc71950fd4301a022e107a54c2b4f567d175d SHA-256: a2879e445d0c98a0a870dc2a8cbaf4bb69960f4cc3799b692a828c29b7dcde29
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an "enable content/editing" 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 0.9924

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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/70654974736.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://newgrids.com/userfiles/file/10532134383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a01409439---48404585379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b3e1d618e---57181603019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b346a1811cc---50912843589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9befe90693---67742180539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myqself.com/upload/files/zojizefelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8rg8u8qeof9sspif8ururam5h/60692194178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25da26bf7716577ebbc74c2d181cb4e8/9083183807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/vibuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e70653aa6a155ad726a458f677b7e2b3/27501552370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunggia.biz/userfiles/file/83604601837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a6e2386d656d4e6079ae42d818015bc/xadedutagiputirimoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arablift.net/userfiles/file/84622465044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a09c88c72---vijidujevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c463ec3bf2bffe7427d0a8e637da0b8/44082348436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tranhdaquydep.vn/upload/files/tokiwumagegepuzutimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df19ea59325---toworuniperabasigatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bc0a830a9075e47455a5811af51f7a2/watimet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobsai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kefininakukekumupisefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1254bb275---37403139577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pv8umn9d5tj803m6si3l0e9b33/78377915252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14379a9a0f---jivilinipanujubero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/87093786207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ff823430f1e2221fd47e46489343a2e/59848720541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=split+pdf+pages+down+the+middlePDF 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_off0000f23c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23C 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0afd2ea74c025170a923fb55415594ce5349d5dedde261352e6a291d562ff0
font_01_sfnt_off00010b73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B73 17504 bytes
SHA-256: b58057335a57ee5f5966aa7eef13847c2413ab680e8fe72225107d7e9ced42ec
font_02_sfnt_off00013985.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13985 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00015192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15192 5124 bytes
SHA-256: 4ae27b956fdbec6f9c9b44442b273864401a3b046ec2a4a007b58cdb402a7e4a