Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2bba0b0afae82a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-07-29 12:40:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: c43fb9bdc036ad446cb5473f82385216 SHA-1: 087c9c548f7477ee8bef6b7ecb14f4c0d7fcb4e0 SHA-256: a2bba0b0afae82a503794bf3e0cb1352ea028abc33fe92702b8e149fc3ee950a
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 0.9989

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+choose+a+ping+pong+racket PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc02e34753---25345707726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cintabogor.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/12910749140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k23kbvkbafrdlngu92n35sogr7/23183926754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/5065996913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b73301f289---nifufajuzufomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://24emk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4030383020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/bivuretuzipiseza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eksbrqudnsnkqt0qrhhb93lj2q/wakije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dannysacademy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18359465684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48a26eb6a0---87085062753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/50893250362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukaunited4d.vip/contents//files/meluwalenizudeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91576981334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/31891700424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/kerenuzimer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p76bqt2jbsvqirtsq1tdkcbqmf/85616024065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03646e1f8b6bd6ad70773c8cff06524d/taragoxosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607278bbb6d14---83517881914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/dudiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/btddetkabmk9n2u2o10v3k1uck/23959395675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c04255d973---resewemabod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210609110419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/poxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15fc9c5e624b3d668589b79cd517f099/ledewoluvikawuwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akbaturgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/54775244333.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_off000112cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112CB 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 676c621f9d96b84459fc268c5a4450a181e4c8fe6c4b5743ab3e170bef5875e3
font_01_sfnt_off00012b9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B9F 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 5600f90a39130b138641fd22407a8e55d98b5ef4d7136b9eceb1c5725faf82fe
font_02_sfnt_off00015777.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15777 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1