Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af448bdc2794d5c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-06-03 02:23:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: a3d7dd6f02197fa9dac8b2b54822f619 SHA-1: 01a2b3c43cd0fb2c5958331bc19806eb8511ab6a SHA-256: af448bdc2794d5c0dfc74e748fafa543e94d6fdf2f73f534ca17fc11aed76c8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=formel+til+areal+af+trekant PDF link annotation
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8691b91f2105569f654fe24b88dbab8f/35957280231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876c64cbdce---pigatukolojebupubab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/245b5b2a2902d3df89d8da5c4cf26020/58545677474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30d7c7ef43e4307a6cae56b96b9176a3/35428559470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamslakeband.org/userfiles/file/60707189811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba00551dc7---dajigudiwumiledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f09d8285c440ffd6d4ea1f269a1900b/gugabanebusaget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863a2966ec3---60130771685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b591c02507---xaparajizoret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8ab3742d0---babojuvatapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a158795365a2bbfdd9ce0678dcd60d4e/zinuxumelafukerijukaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/2747251236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e2afc8c16---moweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb43e6333d---vokuxixoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5qb17mnads4hm1h0jlj6tps6mr/7926105001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e92168ba19826675d9d0f7ce1d934d8e/3737210187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000de19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE19 4756 bytes
SHA-256: 66b7867f5b6b58d9410add725971e7a8f3fff8c0745ee659d310881f49f35a62
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE33 12336 bytes
SHA-256: 87354c9457f4756227efd82f3ecd742a717be3cf53e0569c0ebfd070dcc25674
font_02_sfnt_off00011629.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11629 16096 bytes
SHA-256: 2dff1fc3e5bf1049a512ca2ab3d4448021a5e4676c0c9a63fbc3d390c83797d9