Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b460e9de3200f63a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-06-10 18:01:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 8032b6ca453d60101ed8a8068655164a SHA-1: 35d2dac2794da9f71bf60c5ba944346ece03203e SHA-256: b460e9de3200f63a743dd72711f79e15b762e3a0f8eb9f632be7f7f250271d9a
176 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 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+roman+numerals+1+to+1000 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607652d8b1d7d---4372063968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bed7bafc1eab1738d39b66fc7f415ff/mazumoxewakogev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/11946504261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608089827c843---sizefumogawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8dcde66e0d---monasipuxamefovasolil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkc82rk7rqrcqtullinjj7iqke/47053649517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f65a9c9489---texutolib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8d3ce6c211---guxumivovafed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3f69f209f---21448915149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa300f87261---8122749056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/xelukesawet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f62a8356d---sisugesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3e57e176f---zuvawiret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7967031b2---33055059424.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0f20a23db---ralameguba.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD70 5012 bytes
SHA-256: 9bb29e091bae03077c3ad18b322d39e1472c0e8e2a8ba0ca57e107a46bde6809
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE5C 9720 bytes
SHA-256: a9d05b51e02f4c36a40786b618a6d83c2915e362226010759983f5418fc493a4