Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bec40a7a5a91f138…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-05-28 17:55:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: e0a6dc0d3a5ef7a989daf2870fe483c2 SHA-1: a8e1a7cf22027f4ed25a807b8a6cf63e1ebac6bd SHA-256: bec40a7a5a91f138ed708de97d4ce835afe13ade9ba1fc5844a62005b8d15d5c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+basic+computer+knowledge+in+hindi PDF link annotation
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfc7a3c48b---muguzijolizalokol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/xupiverukanumokanubepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608120c52a003---xikita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ag73apbcf39d0l6eb063087tu5/pinizonopatunebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6rdfot4ajk2s8g9ou3ngk8a5lq/kikuvukamulunadejivexeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c962ae2a34---mofegotevazudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a8372c797---60841037367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3h2q5a721rn4prkv9313i2knad/delivitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33719a164c4676218670aa6a532dab73/64116177507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ded45436086cf7f246311ed82d6d5ee1/28760559674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/16642467500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandrosso.com/js/upload/files/vototojapafunujove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856e5379aa1---32811485501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/dewemaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608826c282fc8---68380598672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000101e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E9 5796 bytes
SHA-256: c824343f79cc833e3151648ca0fae758ed560f0673d95b8486e1a06470befe61
font_01_sfnt_off00011589.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11589 3720 bytes
SHA-256: 40ef96da86b6123d577d475be460de15c41b9ca7393a8e650be4e9942aa3c64b
font_02_sfnt_off000120eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120EB 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 5a0ef092e5e7dd43a5f8b13ced104ed71d9545921591576fdd0ba4d963a40a81
font_03_sfnt_off00014466.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14466 16128 bytes
SHA-256: 7fab6f2815f38c7adc0ec3d7eba4d262967b979a59b48645275d11a5c2863902