Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab36af7b20380311…

MALICIOUS

PDF

127.8 KB Created: 2021-06-22 20:24:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: effef19299331a7920847bc9bcd38a61 SHA-1: ca2d8b56bd08bd1653478cc31635f031901dda24 SHA-256: ab36af7b20380311d00aedf10e3a166f30b92b90b9882632362a4b538bc3bcd8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9994

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://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c065bc621ac---76905160477.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sphotobooth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745ef800ec4---67083563983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c4b4c3b7753c7318788d3faa6811794/xomefikupeziwixizukalon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/xakotebixurezejew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae988277eef---2332981225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/kevodukudib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/47866699959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/43512868916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/nagurakemajokawawurisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1fd1777b2---91618554622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bebd58c1c1c---86174787540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af0fd3ee9f---89780747091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3f50bc130b8dfb6d9e663c6d7afaf73/wuvuxomojobijulonisevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f924d310b3---sigesesudesididolefuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=architectural+model+making+techniques+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001c10d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C10D 5748 bytes
SHA-256: 69b8ff38f5a65f02a8d556fa417d34806b37a431d08ae64e7ee48ee2f1ddd3fd
font_01_sfnt_off0001d468.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D468 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 7e5d3397b22a26b8eb8d7528c830b01891c571d27f661762a143171261da5b02

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