Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a35be35bfafae2af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-08-15 10:32:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: f917165ebc0a6a0fc48a0cb14081c543 SHA-1: 81ffc22ea3a7796a45e2e56e94cd4ab694af9c4f SHA-256: a35be35bfafae2af5a1eec7f60739ed9f09ac033f6dcc911a3d1dbdb6f5ba9f8
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 0.9990

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://airshow-bg.com/file/49392724193.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k620cj3o8kja3dafn3rvqvqh9p/78426874930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/34977774304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/33597470801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85cc9ce469---41618199938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://le27.fr/docs/file/16155834337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c89d06396a---45613155857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ndct4btd22rm8b3ec9em1efkba/26229444433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymenhome-etsinta.net/tiedostot/files/luziva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/mukaxodexojitusawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/xavobajurebopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamotato.ro/userfiles/file/43092627664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/42941042214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/94121567642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5833faf2de---xumilidepijanuduxuxupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/28127756233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d521bfce831---63098489285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99ff7b97cc9adcf48026f46c63c7f021/19938524374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b607f2ade83---dinubopavolunekilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/96408015680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47209742478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca66cefcf489f3bb1af20536cb0190f8/20217398355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaef8f5449e---73701763418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094351ec98d6---goxawovavawepexotitaruvik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+abcb+rhyme+schemePDF 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_off0000e561.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE561 17768 bytes
SHA-256: 106266136caa318b75a4555cf821ceb4fb7bd235a82ed9e8ed556b1df8c95384
font_01_sfnt_off000112f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112F3 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 7a2fac7cfc5e333a65330656c8fc2daa660b884a96cbc99a63db894e7fee9009
font_02_sfnt_off00012ad9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1