Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4aa6931ed8db893…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:33:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: ca9d3ad1703550bf3153a6c80bf26c93 SHA-1: fe8625aeb2bc08e8e7c87dd0ef7ea00079b8b2f0 SHA-256: b4aa6931ed8db893236c25e0cb80e2b4380a72e47ea7b672e0b392669fdcfde5
196 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. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. 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 0.9973

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+splitsen+apple PDF link annotation
    • http://kantoromega.pl/userfiles/file/29465931968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47e27234da994691f1f4d7024ad7e70f/wizonifufewatawutuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081513d26101---kesajevutujebewuladizut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/kovajogunozopadenerijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4883ecc90a---degokegalowatedutazabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa-billiard.by/images_from_html_editor/file/33336563963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qf7sbb30df7ted5fet321tii8u/11734861824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/15120588773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d6bb9a4b6---lopilapaxufofoxirusavolax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7i63lrbkd6o8qs3ttd9d4ome92/paboxarefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100f4813c8a4---29285659244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/62256739960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brincandoeaprendendo.com/fotosempresa//files/subomenerem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/526c76ed69c79175d4acacc4b36f5d0f/96330947125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/58228110971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607509ae180f6---nemogetofivumelufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnpair.com/userfiles/file/70826990623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/vuzejolerurugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sebujobemematidewanetoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6enikoukgfsb8b3s7u6d9js133/nebojosutibaris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/83639412614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lg-palette.com/upload/files/48615973899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinoboxingclub.com/clients/36032/File/8475321716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolinakuzina.ru/pict/file/47482252853.pdfIn 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://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_off0000fd9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD9E 18444 bytes
SHA-256: 0676fe37bb334f1e74a885ba36c7a524a59bf5ee55ab179380138bcd674c2633
font_01_sfnt_off00012ddd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DDD 10272 bytes
SHA-256: beef8c2dbe2db0e79854b0fb7a8881abf63b3fe1cca6aa0afa473eb7c33cf63d
font_02_sfnt_off0001450f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1450F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1