Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4ea1a968e1adf47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-06-19 12:05:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 12bd2841fdb34ce0003cd63a19d23ace SHA-1: 9cef3a34472efa532716375d1543f33a7b779a99 SHA-256: a4ea1a968e1adf470fc3329925ffed259c5190def6de881b78db2f0a20a9f410
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9998

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://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/nozovoledurezumonafuvebe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ce5ca72ec---vozejanamibemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a548b1b75e7a87819712885311da4e4e/52727742289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jbiunpr5j4vsv0ans47175scnt/depojon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ver1h7qjv7ecm2f59c02mk8q6/vojusibomomimozuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/79051152448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7df0fa8dcf09402e1a32d9191a6e7bef/zekeguxalamuzowajine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s23uv0kobntq5guu46vo2ceri1/40686032191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7f354fde97d258835a14ae2aeb5d1d2/34255687826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/1207084463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a29e935811---24106735593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70615437602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohouse-lab.com/userfiles/file/wotijabilabajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c40b7c55bd3---gukija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/vamodifutomupufagopon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ui091eaqju6lskg8projoots0/tosokojiwudafife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=kamal+old+songs+tamilPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f88e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF88E 5020 bytes
SHA-256: 1a60aee37a2e9984d1ea1c023d9b5a032bfa5157514d6fc28e77823cd8501b1a
font_01_sfnt_off00010990.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10990 1936 bytes
SHA-256: 73983ccd477f0e4c07634362c0f9f13a23cea415a26bff37f7f125d59a681190
font_02_sfnt_off000112d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112D3 11340 bytes
SHA-256: 5ee7a43fc0d1d04f1bf379e181407f516657955d41231e73d3760be8741991e3