Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5401f82a3b02fe9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

188.5 KB Created: 2021-05-24 12:48:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: cc67e04d34b5a8bd9fdee45e80fc175f SHA-1: f490669eaf75b8df3c852fb76d64e8e16eebcb2e SHA-256: a5401f82a3b02fe922efdab56115f2b752cd871ebbd1b98b827c5bc1f04ad13a
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 0.9972

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://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a69928c3117---29852762713.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b67990ed4e---33762418546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/vupunegatonaruvazitesoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dc7a8fc841f3017c4cef8007f2a04c8/dadajiwozegafapadezugoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac37138681---36955855714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31a2d97ef5---2635702169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee8f791675b7fa4b9648830cec66273d/lipagofafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/522c20b1a48ab33fdddc5e4b222c89a3/6956676611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a38e403373---81038913238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab8704553d555fe859fda4564df41b2d/50220105523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/133b1fd3f121b0b065421cfeda59f6ac/jadatefojel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f259407edc---17379104430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083785a465ee---93754351737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f789ac4495---22239615947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bce5a0d6ae---32887620419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d06e6cc7f7---zasifixusafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=where+can+we+watch+it+chapter+1917PDF 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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000167e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167E7 79192 bytes
SHA-256: 1c3015d8eb48cff6fa66c957684f6f70e7fe10386863dc7742cacd5412439427
font_01_sfnt_off00025a74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25A74 4884 bytes
SHA-256: 7fe1863731be076884dbc351fdf532b1ecbe71f9e7d086bea7509b0cafe77022
font_02_sfnt_off00026b18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26B18 7856 bytes
SHA-256: 86f186826c7ac3ac6f5a713a7c80b02d2871b9e7ae28422dcda0a6c54436b084
font_03_sfnt_off000280be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x280BE 15064 bytes
SHA-256: c05487b7f4370229bbdf2db769c4836a33afb26fd725c1f77963eed0c19bbfe0
font_04_sfnt_off0002aff8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2AFF8 21112 bytes
SHA-256: e5e070569c6d363a6476adbf771c9bd8498fbef030fee6e9749063bdb5ebcb95
font_05_sfnt_off0002d3e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2D3E5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3