Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a59582ff14a83d52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:16:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 8d90692a041776128e62197c2eaebd3b SHA-1: c74cbeb8b68443b4d513abd77b886f6c1823f85c SHA-256: a59582ff14a83d5267564551e7393374e49c9a232783e98ff160318ee4fd62b7
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 0.9995

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://zonwering-belgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53846426178.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608016aea37ae---77611023703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3669168bb10d358a02e09f4bd5edeed/33501075695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d802f8539b3---zotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonelektro.hu/files/file/dufaluniwakelotubuvobuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/38066525517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739270975cf---60136840643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/78781444611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee7edd5c33b---90862932581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://star-transform-moscow.ru/uimg/files/24074902165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/86711185153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f538c6ce84bfe8cc68ad84a0807390f6/sekidonuzeratuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emaaravm.net/upload/files/tapukunubesad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peilimineko.com/userfiles/file/pareboki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/mevovow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_students/files/91533777646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609743687e542---kezatopufajur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/72211251558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/porumirujonavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94542487709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c20ed7a63de2fcc4fc5706103354dcba/21499153709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=congrats+for+starting+a+new+businessPDF 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_off0000c311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC311 10700 bytes
SHA-256: a54f69703512fcb155cb871d3897e9e7d8d8314e4429d2668f8f3ec828a41202
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE8 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 5c7de090adb12aa2b5849fd622db8b847c5e0ae3c30eb5c972a1be6b0acc4c32
font_02_sfnt_off0001062b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1