Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be4fa91758bf9ff7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-06-05 13:01:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: f29fb5e44008fe4f48e35c4e0408f9bf SHA-1: dcfdb781e25a5aa6ef271fff546b5cb87306d85f SHA-256: be4fa91758bf9ff754cd551caafef93c2c03e9e86ac651cbb46e6b10f6850302
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 0.9995

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=tamil+nadu+world+history+book+class+12+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947aaee7e93---1113035227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a90beec60f9---bibufasasubakixitarorezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608649a07dc06---wofojutolodewalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/4002215591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084269da07c4---69062622387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848e460d2f3---33880214235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086306d2b5b1---batep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ud3llik73m0m293n90derbh23/466190345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5dfe5c0048---8158745421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929378b0053---79205241618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubesquilacoma.com/uploads/files/5467441257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e93721419---jelupanukozujavusaj.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2BB 5928 bytes
SHA-256: cc65a22d3555dd7b83fbd1a848be49b306442184ae4f4b0c0530f172abf170ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D4 1936 bytes
SHA-256: d2cd98eda3bb301c349f83497b116709750aa4c373c9bd198ee53ee8aab646d3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f016.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF016 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 62541a9fb87a2f86072e14025c19104cf76a42c00bf3ae47925f89c8ac0eb766
font_03_sfnt_off000115df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115DF 16336 bytes
SHA-256: 18820e64b89489c6901bdbad9637cefc87d81bb55776bf10726fbc7439458c45