Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2ce87de2284d23c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:41:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 304a042b6dfa061966054b84292d8941 SHA-1: ec721ae18d7bb631532a7571af533195c7370a9a SHA-256: a2ce87de2284d23c03feabc41c4cac896a91bc50b9b1274dc6f509bd8f40345f
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 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/280523169086.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/nadifufofutidivomorimubal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0efe45a45c89bae875a838869ef2842c/60938604658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2osv9pt2jfpt.com/uploadfiles/files/xuzepaxemegex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pd6dbf91bcejt0k5uk1r0a57g8sk8ld1/93120047667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/xifinalebaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/40350525958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldway.jp/upload/board/file/nerojuremetituwujenebumul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ad8db66de---resilovibakazemokiputinit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apra.pl/files/file/20994417966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/46634611245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reitinguok.lt/userfiles/file/14710794378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/223e5d7245d3d49df2e8b20f71a90e42/dugomajinabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/dubemorititeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/67324145836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/889b86c38cdcc752dd84b396290c40e2/sesurojifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9n2bn9mz3aba29g44r4o0a.kr/fckeditor/userfiles/image/63121354456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seowonbattery.com/files/fckeditor/file/2057265172611744850aa99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/jenedelipagabapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fdf110aa16---34424152064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prkrqqhkoijml01bl67ishbrib/16128234763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.minaakshimajumdar.com/fckimages/file/28594594076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fbcf2309b---bobofedoroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc010.com/userfiles/file/20210725055108_1f7wax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=conditionals+0+1+2+3+exercises+pdf+with+answersPDF 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_off0000d871.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD871 19128 bytes
SHA-256: 2111ac36308df1f0500c7afb89f336232b2b103f261a57c7aa7776c609da6944
font_01_sfnt_off00010a17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A17 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 464d7ae2102b1648c70de093b29ef575a3e8a9e3b719fb32fecefe64ef2fbdb6
font_02_sfnt_off0001251e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1251E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1