Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b96d262c8a29ac22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:09:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 3f7b02b9062d6ae9ca44601e7a44fb08 SHA-1: cf3e1259efd95943123b485f7211771615acb26d SHA-256: b96d262c8a29ac22a5eab0eb16e11239d635993fc982558c50dfc3ba4e4ccc52
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 0.9952

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://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1310155c473a5fadad78258aed197f4/32238116751.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/visopelodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/88752249216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072cc0309cce---gadepoximu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09f8qbesmn78erkvcfj0i93go4/semuzowum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/wasenixobapukagizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sme1970reunion.com/clients/7/78/786f1e38e9ed540b4a7d4f5dbcc09398/File/61187698619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/242268da58a5310e525653b8dabbbbac/lozuduwebapedifatolan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/kajudukusujofiserevuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiajitu.com/contents//files/43929402782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/fadapemewowuxorulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b40555.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/furixile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seltec.io/images/uploads/files/sotokeragimafobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2f919a8df---54532039084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espressobuilders.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/mekeluwiwixegafopewiloroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/40282532500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dywin.com/uploadfile/files/wixewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607613b8f1fd1---bipabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20210717_125432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607243da2fca8---7624171719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77dac032f2---rekuwixopotugisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelletier-tp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tatijodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611da5fa022c1---39347843029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=graphing+linear+equations+worksheet+answers+algebra+1PDF 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_off0000ebaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAA 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 95a2149e432dd99a1f11d9fc01aa9d8ae4a94b7bdbd42de391067b1813d3ef34
font_01_sfnt_off0001055e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1055E 17656 bytes
SHA-256: ffed7a287f1e5556d3576697b35c2a0373e1516f62d785baf411595c8e308145
font_02_sfnt_off0001330f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1330F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1