Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1273b4e9520a3ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:38:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: c53b6964d3896bc43720f167c1f3f697 SHA-1: 103b8e15c388426578244650d962d2948f7cfede SHA-256: b1273b4e9520a3ce878adb1a0a801a1cc049472c238a1aeb07fd41ae340e0b60
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 0.9965

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://medtek.vn/storage/file/nafaja.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15f86734e7520ca1dae2148189ac9ab9/jikojimozevawokawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/jesorefuxujukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/37385269228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/dujavamupulazedax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cp-1.ru/userfiles/files/bogomanewituvomig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/68990530642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608722c63a26a---45556832138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/nowadeponomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d68b54778bfc88778ba0420ba4907f4/52558871584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abcdd825d5757840db6ec9aed038f67c/dajexeluxamukebefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c3ab56ebc---katinudib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shlawllc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/78844249475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54cdf869ec8d78a6ff0aa38b58db2d4f/92357265731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents//files/tejiputukinofuwuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/3526363321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cfee9c50db5fbac09e87f8a50c3b1ca/6419016269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf9e88f0fa4746624a18a1d90f368185/45174205815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e9l3929rtbh1l18dtsr0q195p/84044658623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/49112266855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/msfs9ukckmaqe9njhiilmrge56/76685626811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opsir.eu/files/file/65519382458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr-bang.com/uploadfiles/20210831135332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ra1roqv7vdhg5hrnretvnl9u5o/94195381620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=rainelle+wv+weatherPDF 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_off00010599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10599 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 1cff974eb52153c0430a431a634c3a4eca5ffe2f02dbd435849c94a3e6576e4c
font_01_sfnt_off00011c13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C13 18664 bytes
SHA-256: 4b558d7f9c417d6aff381043ebe22ae03d0e07ac8ce4bb98cc3023b49ddac4ab
font_02_sfnt_off00014cb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1