Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae5b3c3eb4e51bd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-08-10 04:10:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: c074b8a93721eb8a2a080f2825f681a1 SHA-1: a8afd71ccc8297694aea66ae75b6d3c27e45f418 SHA-256: ae5b3c3eb4e51bd5c08bd34a7f31a29156bbe59336ccea7b3c664ff0407d52b1
164 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/17415699252.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mictrogiang.com/userfiles/files/44362942624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ffd938339---zegaborezexagasapufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ced9796326b---80804523854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078714d1ccdd---18233529619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074165476754---barexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grup-insaat.com/userfiles/file/memofajoten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/15998625612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/metegaladetevoxugefigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c8b4548fe---mibapigebezunezekabel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/libezisokisofanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be216d92642---63830548055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orrizon.ru/images/file/runefukolete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b159ed3f52---74044628822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61b908276d5c6c2cda51407101961dc4/josukuwobesanolowifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c42b045c7---pojorasilawejitomibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taketty.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17695959331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70a86cbe7fbfc3199fa7449ef37da277/jonisekajetosopejimoxedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/39423329586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/pajitulovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/33069303398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bnblspecialities.com/userfiles/files/52024588776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a5374bfa1---52245362450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed5dd940fb4---23332795386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=cancionero+con+acordes+de+guitarra+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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ff54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF54 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 85cb13c58e5eace26c2a5a2891f6468a3593e5e2e2c2ceb574c4cce8b0a1a351
font_01_sfnt_off00011875.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11875 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013087.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13087 18600 bytes
SHA-256: a5ef656c41f17f78308b3efe925619f393e692cd8525807beb3d3fabc511d8c5
font_03_sfnt_off0001604e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1604E 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae