Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5ebeb408200c46c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 10:25:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 21249909c7ff80996250d973d53c04b5 SHA-1: 3e14bf4f848dde2f791fa9dc2c9bf728fcbbe876 SHA-256: a5ebeb408200c46c4ecd7f91d64bfb6bd2e1b144856b2fbb939c8045f072ab9b
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. 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 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84142423909.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/kosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learnrkbin.jugalbandiresearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/volakaxikikosekuper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-of-geldanlagen.de/userfiles/file/60501595552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/vibatuzisuzewex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/57114337386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/natabipafekonid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentaruedas.com/files/others/76778581678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135bea651778---20699516862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73hidtb5j326g0ce7gh1dqc8id/96534143829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210902082925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/62244143201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chamdure.com/DATA/files/23357123649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363199811f7---toliboseniteso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixaydungcantho.com/canthomobile2/public/images/sanpham/files/45153263589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383a90c5b6c---7545819577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/52571082408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dwitunggaljaya.com/sitefiles/file/suzikekusisakuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://52fotki.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rogiwegevuweranov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ebced01dc5---97305616129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a51610016aa95ae1752ceb0171e039f/kamoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdsns.ru/userfiles/file/46453721172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeandrewdavison.com/download/94278564243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosl.com/upload/editor/file/7306502853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=mejor+app+de+sms+para+androidPDF 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_off0000c06b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC06B 16908 bytes
SHA-256: 6481eb1438a69ab209cd01ac27fb178230b6ae28a6bbc204e11ddcfb292ff4a7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ead0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD0 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 0f1a0c32997e696a5e3288e95e9a416b1e2b7f8efeab6dbad503ee6325fb7307
font_02_sfnt_off000102b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1