Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a80cfc5e3544c540…

MALICIOUS

PDF

137.5 KB Created: 2021-07-18 11:01:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8747101c5ef01beda79d8dcb126495a7 SHA-1: 28861f64a02dfd29217d9f7ce372acf5317425f9 SHA-256: a80cfc5e3544c540ef3fc882674dc4274a35ecd7166a00eb5a1e880afd4219cd
164 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 https://brakos.it/file/vixojatirefotatop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/jewobose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee05ef35d8b48a3fb04771f34f39003d/78213524654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffb2e0fd12c8d1eaed527692fbbd8710/64911534576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.anandtirth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0r2i8g2c6ftdsh1fo5jcnj333/nelegewirasumizokivogebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e5358fbb9---jaroxirevate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mgidue92tru517nc7nf5grbdq/jajupadepezinasoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/934hhf4lvk5m5i2o8ss2cf2sgs/bibikalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/93591761585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/89735501016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/777c50418a4f58f9360291ad6be32184/91154690496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b88bc7a9c7---wawefudawaluzitilifuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5074449bb6---nabutabogowiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210714030118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4705473a22fc4411f5ebd68fd65986d7/xugiwajikebero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/34550703549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinatupai.com/web/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70533159000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076303d26ff1---51359905917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b380fa8f869---38804033565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/komakaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorisemitchell.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/2872107160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210614150101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/mewugasarogebab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/54562757451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=jesus+resurrected+on+which+dayPDF 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_off0001af11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AF11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001c723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C723 22728 bytes
SHA-256: a874bed4edd7f4c894d7032707e84ca6085bdb2cbaede32208d396c6e6d49da5
font_02_sfnt_off0001ffb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FFB8 10712 bytes
SHA-256: c86e73c127f3461f24be146710c3ad2403897e17fc3524087fae17f284a55c0c