Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abfded7d3397252d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 00:17:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 33eceb438957ed48570498851e2bdaec SHA-1: 3f01e11b3f585a89037d9d35e68da8ad556c151a SHA-256: abfded7d3397252da21b729db558965cc160542c6fd2c7f27c350630ef222a67
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 0.9998

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 https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b7676900e---jorasodep.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dccff9b6e022575a637a2f619869a39/tigexugurusozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/499019fc525679a6f22524dc13b2d21a/belupesaniwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qvlv2funba0iuafdhha42p673/59511180977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffc4ac9ece326ec09cbeeeb7d2b7edf8/49700336552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c4c6c7353---rarigaxolifenemefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f99031282d93a65676a136df3578f04/68693424378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/gugixusuboniganoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rki97igmfc6v504fgist9skou6/wewadazogekoxodabonege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-insurance-broker.de/downloads/lezumidatemediseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/999fd332f157879e8231ad245349a8fc/biwokibabiruke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile/%5C/77812241270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lc05hes9927scnherr1qp34e6i/jomigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/45522179089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160964bab40207---72657252423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a2a2cd135---52040564941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/066ec640ce3ed83a7768b29e85f6ddcd/pofawirixugaselosalinoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dae84235114fd5dfcb1d664c5542bb3/89577296011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=freedom+is+a+two+edged+sword+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBA5 5060 bytes
SHA-256: 723214b9fd8bb64780356a0c006c86f72cff772e1cb1f36d853b4c43b87bcced
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF2 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 29ecca631b3b69613e2df09834d4a4aced107206d19eb5261910b2bb7c7fa67c
font_02_sfnt_off0001025c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1025C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3