Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2b7285acd9183cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 15:27:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: e259a01aff066f22b9da070bb0ce5fb9 SHA-1: 6eb8d5654b34e71d419f29344999925d882eb379 SHA-256: a2b7285acd9183cdcfa3673897ef32f594257a99dd2383e988c4c9c593e1fcbe
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 0.9992

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=defamation+and+freedom+of+speech+dario+milo+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f9fd0a1944c9189baab96f808ab3cfa/xajelewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceab4acc75829721b2c7909d40cc7853/64083355165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a5afc4434---3779489848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmv6g69i8rts3rb8pdv1h4mh4n/roxajibapuvipuxuzidin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p9pl4ao5kggrgomvq0mhu1pi12/tukerupajonik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/lekuxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/ropaxota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee13b4d7ee---javepilidavesebuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hvpmldhfrvkudgeq90b1ftef58/92564241339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://padservhosting.com/userfiles/file/zafeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoavily.com/uploads/files/60796971273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f30947debee7d6e8530d5dd35349e0ff/kabeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodgluch-projekt.pl/userfiles/37680504076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/waxilatejuzajogevim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vqovv7gsdr1dl0d73kltgh5uj7/gugemugewipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a84d38f3ee---mabejozagidokorob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peterpan1996.it/userfiles/files/14109668269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eff83c77ed---73410168867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokidotakoruveji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b99b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB99B 17008 bytes
SHA-256: d42985f56e4fa7bc34f73164af639fd36c7b26b8f9f6eb1d35939fcefe568857
font_01_sfnt_off0000e558.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE558 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 15d1485c372a487c59856eecc7554f78fa943b052c18132fa241de7d623e342c
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1