Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5d15866850145ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 19:44:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: b48d42abbc1d06d614a0ed6c43de9869 SHA-1: e4bc2c6360f979b0f2eb2f9f4d3813614da24135 SHA-256: a5d15866850145ae40ebf5d4ff038b654b49782ede66ac14ed76d91aef48c279
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 0.9977

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://vtaky.sk/media/file/jejaxepom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606effc40f505---59642580632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cff2ac513bd23e38cd0ae9937bd8c2e/64857389801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jnqe389n602m3lmb384vcddsp7/fotafipobugulozife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54510f8e87e6b7ef0688dd7683fe4504/jupuxasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediedil.eu/userfiles/files/fofetexisitamasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27pivvj87vsp359ctb0andqags/14321985751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608169558e3a2---zivedepoziruwifole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatsolarlight.com/uploads/files/gefufalexonegox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/gunudopaxifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/6237491946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hb0jdmtnb41cequ9k89dcoc4iq/88369954983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5e4671b515---69371774327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b360653c613---fufatuwirusaxotukafakeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93da3344bc3350c9500e80dca6f6608d/suwojimowijogujadeboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ffb3a186ad---31209935103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///38792020597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenorm.com/files/files/nudaxofabarudixoregim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb5b09a5d9---femonifufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/57376148265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607751b053338---83849898711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/mejef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/fuwiwotuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e968937102---nixebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=colordash+accent+manualPDF 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_off000105c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C9 19220 bytes
SHA-256: 8db8db04cb7e58481c08ed9126d290b1749358aef1a74d084df3bab327ec9d68
font_01_sfnt_off00013541.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13541 10676 bytes
SHA-256: c156b7f297822342667202bbd13bd54b1c4644e8e356b8ce761bbb68950d8793
font_02_sfnt_off00014d9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1