Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad21f3791951ccff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 20:09:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: fadd8e442c98ceeafbbbda918ef17d18 SHA-1: c94e0e6b556cdd8c66a3834b090450b09e1e2398 SHA-256: ad21f3791951ccff58522c77d490ad4fd6b1e7d90767bb5bea3da67426ebf3cf
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 0.9942

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.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076168a13314---gumiwepekizewipuraxoxazu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://montrealinkwell.com/clients/c/c4/c478fb9048b4d856ed1aa16e2301f982/File/vikewed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81c1c5466c21a274d35061e614eb3ee7/vetuluse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/22844071696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/gosofazedigevogubenusedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aebd76b6cb7---13185742920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytlcases.com/userfiles/file/potigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mawinizatunijozuvanufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c52193be0bff593d30e569e9c28b181b/xafivazijabinupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/21706879339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mea-travel.pl/userfiles/file/39572040289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96f40246052057d9394745e1f4fa1109/77827369060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b0c937eec---rapolomiwomijisew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bad425a3689---11053942818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2d61a2d500---fazatoxagarun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://954move.com/clients/4890/File/85460500455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f6895fc65fb69188f28f96ad0fb14d0/fubepopuxibazoginina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretlove.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nowufuzigesujejiwawol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a71b6b4e02ad60d1ea56e54963aaa435/21259057094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/59466363604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a0ea1c8a5---numage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uq6kpk823gohmp7fudp0pc5f37/joramusiletepedowopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camionespanamericana.com/userfiles/file/3830643186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/63697028213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gepapegozolafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prof-cosmetics.com/upload/files/12983752636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iaif8e3knpdelnkai7ttu97bid/rebebasonadofudesika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=california+department+of+housing+and+community+developmentPDF 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_off0000fd04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD04 18192 bytes
SHA-256: a8a13dd25a0cd87060890f0266b4f53d573a70b122ebf123a9f8ad61d26bd7e8
font_01_sfnt_off00012ce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE5 11380 bytes
SHA-256: ae76c8818de534f5a014781a9c009223144f372eb07aab12e38572a2013ffdfb
font_02_sfnt_off00014755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14755 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1