Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab7dbec53516a676…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-31 12:47:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 6a1466865c5d02a5345569dd79b5d1c9 SHA-1: 56a720e7b75b30f48536e5a138f6b8283ea5b88d SHA-256: ab7dbec53516a67615b0f2d69c1a0c188059bc3d75f32a78cacf4cb9f7091ba1
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 0.9987

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+change+font+size+on+dymo+letratag+label+maker PDF link annotation
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43f969ff018c4bbe7456d67374b00d2f/zitenunoxesom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/UserFiles/files/94119758120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/newabokiguvaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulga.ru/editor/files/zazerasodexozunem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dwitunggaljaya.com/sitefiles/file/50507670085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916529938b9---kuwaronivapafiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/69171038278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-amc.com/upload/files/durokejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/vugok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/1139751034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dd3caab500---4634916608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cbc427990---bidubojemevedusejirokov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/jeberarijexakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/niwurewavusolodumisini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/989bbb0c9ee5fbadb3dc129cb78f7de2/gajedafevodeluwipawifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfe64b1a58d---76156879942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee6c634115e8213f29f98f96806a3c2a/25254529086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posaonakosovu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dikalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/63056342684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuocnam.xyz/images/files/79982748543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc3d64bb799---gitukaferamufaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daa28617e4b---7897508468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000faee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAEE 20076 bytes
SHA-256: a08ecbe1201b539ef5065666b5fc13b3274db4f2f42d408697eb87986ea7f047
font_01_sfnt_off00012f07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F07 11404 bytes
SHA-256: c88d2e2273ebd2e9807ad030c6f783cb6ceaf31cb783297a8bad16d711031c58
font_02_sfnt_off000149a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1