Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aef2c855f647259c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-29 21:54:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 95e9c734b4d6aa706e0205ad91249c97 SHA-1: f79ed9bcfb75917899e99df979547126f4e2a193 SHA-256: aef2c855f647259cf075c6a584d44a6048c1b6f37047e21390bae25ecdc2fb66
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 0.9976

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 http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/nepadodevakule.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/xeladiraxajeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/54590331302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oferta.lt/i/File/87777381737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b574f0e13---wigused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086953bcaf9c---furijurinugelilofite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/24095258121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wickedcheesy.com/images/file/8809207980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee46addbeb---99387560288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/91036172786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/agvjlvcdu445g82bgv2359ir05/4840623233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9595e8c99---10357145595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/jokipelato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1904915d60---zavalinamugawanemojuzis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a01a86b2580---29188758511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47590576111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d4edb551b---25227019809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9caca3b7e1f8ee4766f6461a03a9c51c/suxugotoxaxudorotowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43707346426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://group-anons.ru/userfiles/files/tejife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885d71977f2---sosexudur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majorpropertygroup.com/userfiles/files/16277558907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d526d6f67---fagosiwudakegimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+different+guided+and+unguided+transmission+mediaPDF 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_off0000f003.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF003 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 716436d988db5fbe486625d8dfb39a9ed14430b103b89554d58cfe8cf8493178
font_01_sfnt_off00011cf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001350f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1350F 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 454aaf33a2a87fe72108b9877e1cab5c2ce78b5aeacf1f96a15d88e265738a17