Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b28a560185b93920…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-08-04 09:28:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: aaec519de872e7d5a3dfca3eec22ecd3 SHA-1: 0b740aadc24be6450039edb4263aec183743de49 SHA-256: b28a560185b93920ad8b38d3c5fcfcbc52fb0908dd77e8bd5994eecda2a21670
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 0.9974

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://passaicvalleyclassof1957.com/clients/44362/File/76234628682.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/loh9d0daumbf7ek6456mhva541/82797660514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fanokag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11622006963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89dd430266aa694d9b22f497360a610f/vukedejuvobebuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/files/68948842682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bc38ed9bcdf1b3cabb28cb9e0208111/42290779321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personnelstrategies.net/userfiles/file/68577486957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://priscar.com/documents/files/21987272938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/rikebasonasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d42fb7d2cd---26532519814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc83335f71---serudovapebolijixebosafeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c117560e68a---16264985785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1b2d3178db---famipebujekalep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c07b6c899f0---tagikigiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngthisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79168222205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southport1969.com/clients/861680/File/82556204418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d428e95d26---74578568065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/bemifovimulefobobilebepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef017926c1---zanavufadavaxuzupuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/bedexoguvupatagaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac70d669f42---vunowenisirinanepuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed74d83e809030fdae07c92ba2b75644/7976468465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608339cc69ddd---98468338809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=land+measurement+units+in+nepalPDF 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_off0000e658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE658 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 79673e4c150bbc1ffdd3fe3c4e24793647dfc621fdd070b62304964160999519
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0F 16844 bytes
SHA-256: 486b0c0b6bc195ffe5c638053500c6bf4d8b80252553c52a118ccc515b9ee084
font_02_sfnt_off00012a1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1