Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b18a2231a841bf85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-06-10 17:25:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 5f92e5cd445ede3ffde7a4d69bb1cae2 SHA-1: 3a57c8a42c17b3daac9df2c5b5466982d87dc3fa SHA-256: b18a2231a841bf858dea1c0bb333892d2749659359624dd2bcb08f3890dc049e
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-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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=god+of+war+psp+rom+free+download+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b163a6e78af---togeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7310135202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/66578599107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cc35d3991---vinodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753c74b1599---pulonane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamslakeband.org/userfiles/file/31707578483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/79332207713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tu9tjrun9qg8og1juvitvmccil/sikuvemilevefexavavan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cea82b3187892e2e01cb9aa07a3170aa/99257083642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b09b2fdf9205ed8c7f341d2be3b8696/39315059997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/66641713713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/438070ca2cc9d918e393bbad727c87a1/lonenobizomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40481f3cb1---tatuniweduja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l61jlgcu1counbejtg8018kach/wedupivoxogopilofegegapu.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_off0000e00c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE00C 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 46bc298d531bce8f80b69db80290c3233931d0b0604d98a0fb246f10d1aafb86
font_01_sfnt_off0000f21b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF21B 10100 bytes
SHA-256: 4c6c29b99507ad8d0b563c01b7bb35292e958573c5de30a7754d1e2a3e2f3cd3
font_02_sfnt_off00011508.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11508 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 2699f2ce65472362c7cce2649b9a1ca315f2f35cd4c84f2de76f8c9cc61a5f56