Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfed780e1ee4773c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.3 KB Created: 2021-06-10 15:34:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 5cc1b953d8db532a1078b8dc2e1d7597 SHA-1: c56878d5ef4acb3f5e09dd123aa15c541d36f009 SHA-256: bfed780e1ee4773cc4659d14227c20bef18c5767b2f082e85c405cb76d93d760
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 0.9992

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=french+conjugation+etre+and+avoir PDF link annotation
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608350a2bc091---6832294789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/bibetejedonumerodezevolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0429ca2f9e---62488255855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhibaosang.com/media/ftp/file/takeburasekufov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ea13157e7---bajuvorozetutefowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1be148928c3487c67df94ac3c5599f76/sapepupobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/tinete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/frqqfu9j9flkprgoim8ihhsa31/juvinujoredizurulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epmm2iopp5tu1od0p8sl20tbk3/56164560821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d632624b8---11720741216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba180be4cea---3289491949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecc3uue6g6kvj74btl28e6klhj/1040140458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aefa024d211c867d7cfe8b5893be3c59/tiwuzosalitif.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011a7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A7D 3312 bytes
SHA-256: ac66ddecb1889e99694234647e4a1e19b6174440e696c9ee44c6cb9711419273
font_01_sfnt_off0001265e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1265E 5084 bytes
SHA-256: a8c333ef2c11e9622c9d9088ce84b18471ac61ce663fbcdb038b25d1206e41ba
font_02_sfnt_off000137ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137AB 1800 bytes
SHA-256: 51ebeec29509b87aa858d500e37ac8853184703d07d1f913ce36d8e1dc7764c0
font_03_sfnt_off00014039.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14039 13360 bytes
SHA-256: 516e24d6423479717d4483ceec48428b4831ca2d58f5d87eaf04d2f18dcae8f3
font_04_sfnt_off00016aaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16AAF 16964 bytes
SHA-256: cbccdadc50cbf1026792bd0033f4b82685342f93f9956ea972ee90c1cbbbe82f