Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2b66aee137d63af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-21 20:56:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 1ee53d14b0c9ea175b96c501d7cb9a54 SHA-1: aa8144ebaa2c592939505cbdb09bbd75954bf55c SHA-256: a2b66aee137d63af3f9db1609ed18e9013e1ad06cfeb70ad1dd8b68251656b67
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 0.9980

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://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edd5aa2f249---14101039767.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5604so8vrdsufduu8jltpf9qe/49514670245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/revuruwokanivanomivizidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olech-rzeszow.pl/userfiles/file/87823613814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/69942478489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5dd3a36ea9952fb5347d66486565d74/neferewuzewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7722a2544e---xuvekivititonefefozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d7f0b642f---44910412851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4229a382b2---rofutado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northphoenixmustangs66.com/clients/4/4b/4b49b54eec06ebba3741256e9f3e6f2b/File/gukezomoxewirurojow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b4dde9ecc---69627120173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jlgft9le3vpe1sjh1aubq6tsc/neguraxisutetabisab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d79f65f10ba---digitomurozoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/bixotudivenawijodumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/topakulinogirobetawurisos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/vezuselidobosoxagibumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8004a90222---15832850911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://red-persimmons.com/upfiles/editor/files/lexutaxazumukexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrmax.ca/clients/9797/File/28204765619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/jadumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/wanevakewunanesizezulet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/16403007934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+create+round+text+in+photoshopPDF 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_off0000e6ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6AE 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 81321cc8f7e5375ae088d8224f73c967a14864b71d11e7ba3fce6c420c9b8b68
font_01_sfnt_off00011364.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11364 10844 bytes
SHA-256: defc99be6d17ff0978ba5f4c4464b0c3411d624029ff456fa9580d970e145b19
font_02_sfnt_off00012c61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1