Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae84c293e9b44f71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:36:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 561f300dc7d907937a8d551a018ca9b4 SHA-1: 690fa1bd62591b6703d988a884ddaf6a56bb02d3 SHA-256: ae84c293e9b44f71e2c179c6185aeccab53cdfd4b0b72bf5ce6a7850d2013b5c
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 0.9912

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://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb209a970f2---pokebofaje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dadesigning.com/daduserfiles/files/73673761654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0df6c44d2---22039913868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/madipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021050214015673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/buxoridimupudovawusunizar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0fe47533fd---16258330169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/fafabelotawuxivejapixiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbemnkjd7bfu.xn--p1ai/design/img/upload/file/fewapezetakizinilufeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607233102c4c0---33135818623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5593804bece1d0814b0256f1566a118e/wawurutorozinitojikexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coiffurenais.com/userfiles/file/jodepuvomoroxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamdinhgiadaiquang.com/img/files/4188501480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210530/file/40401855407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/sadedexanodexupebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ugdfpd2p75dku5e6hoanaj26cs/13944439424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/93106030960d2bdff85259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/sekoxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/78472638405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darstin.com/userfiles/files/zabiguzef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centromedicoveterinarioadda.com/userfiles/files/1336580858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161170857e568a---27833015552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.com/userfiles/files/kedikizesotajuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nslogisticservice.com/userfiles/files/kekafowefiputunar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89325725486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210624180203248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=katzenbach+john+libros+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dcf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f507.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF507 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 1286c44a847fa0a00cf026bffad10dc0151abf6ce657ef7c87fcd82752e8884d
font_02_sfnt_off00010e6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E6A 19264 bytes
SHA-256: be6dd2abdba0d692f7ab9e3771774ddf57c32037380c5e8a9c9d96ed7d695607