Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad396dfc7c7ee630…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-08-29 06:53:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: fcb2c0cb499d48b0297ed46b0855e55e SHA-1: 4c0709511cc34c29cf7fc6b3f5aa81e2eeb91503 SHA-256: ad396dfc7c7ee630507122292922b05bbaaaf080c21e03141edb59f2ea3bf87f
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 0.9980

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://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20923403861.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vssteel1999.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/tiwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8960bb393949a38151c18460aac9c0b4/sepogakumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/benamuxoduzanap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuvanthietke13-5.com/webroot/img/files/digipinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gym-rectif.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35145340754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/26400604088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xeroxexpres.cz/userfiles/file/nimetenegowevuvudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotoprint.lv/downloads/file/rinijelevewajuxuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippon.lv/uploads/File/29775732902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chris-arnold.com/userfiles/file/fusovawexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb6b1ed69b---jaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appvid.eus/userfiles/files/luboxagoxajawimiriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a991cc4ebd---wegepuzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099cb704133b---37781072126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ae1b279cb1---wewuwivenar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atreve.eu/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/35275413106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/zijemitovuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozefezamafet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/zesorel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b3244e51c---xusapigapibaromafuxunot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=unseen+passage+for+class+7+icsePDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4204e3d3bb42a291e6b2361fb5ba4baf/64583908745.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_off0000c697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC697 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dea9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA9 17164 bytes
SHA-256: c1aaae114c7070f38ae44098878c4569079927535964b2df47eda85feef9e720
font_02_sfnt_off00010b57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B57 10616 bytes
SHA-256: bfe18a3af1b9055eb549bf9da87dc14b5864b49dba1d445097a6a729859c34f5