Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a65309f76a3e206b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:52:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 1f9d701251d11295a85e092bb4aebd1f SHA-1: 4865255feb66a07b39197eaad01746c70289c481 SHA-256: a65309f76a3e206b7d3ab355a66a02406c057ac25828d49b5081c8ddb590cac5
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 0.9933

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://eko-gospodarstwo.eu/files/file/jafizividibixogije.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832b61e0992---pavofuvudisefavot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmik-kino.ru/sadm_files/48258789425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c96877f42---dojabajovipezuvexogamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damutech.kz/upload/2021/08files/210815175214544563vg3h9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/vojujuxixafepunifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--d1achljw0b.xn--p1ai/content/upload/wibolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto826.com/uploads/files/90344549519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bc80b482c635914ad443dbb1fe9861a/pubajudolutuvisukimasuvad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb9d594d07---xokowixatonemegozowujuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/38886751863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210505063046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dprofi.net/images/uploads/file/43429425407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.padanguparduotuve.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59394443044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbb64fbe81d9662066fa832196901746/79298604262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/meriwunivafubini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806c5c638c7---muzitewunobatuduruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffb96bcd42c---jabinojovadipaganufisafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131e25020beb---kidonarewonorutotiwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/difogixebafovopinumimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/wenagezitoxunixedixuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1a66399c8e3ba418f0cf7ef53c59f0e/wugunekikizepud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/mizarikun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610256e76a529---lexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=motivational+stories+pdf+in+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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bb82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB82 21884 bytes
SHA-256: 08311a98c1b6db9c47c6ef0b70007d26fd4bdda91e53c09b1efcb2249c21bb9e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f29a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF29A 16160 bytes
SHA-256: fa5cbea137587b1d4bb1c548ff3f8d17a18587fe273de630a8d80f12e69f99e4
font_02_sfnt_off00010836.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10836 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 484d6ae5171f67b6ae1dc67f4caa75ab4dd3018e3b81806e0e3e7e9b0133aa36
font_03_sfnt_off000120d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1