Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c16956957a4584e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-08-10 18:24:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: aad8a5543ac9443b9968a6d11219ead3 SHA-1: b72d1b33f0ce608769320d76122503da9e92b5c4 SHA-256: c16956957a4584e04a359db61a108ea12829a5e2905e8b776677e33ecc23b8fe
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 0.9994

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 http://willajarmar.pl/userfiles/file/peroxujinadu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae511b9c7b7---40778463310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e02995c6d0523b8caf5c2d25253efa2d/21045979816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f8018f9a7---jejulatanuzop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f02557c06---jabukuwisosad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/62453537375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/naxawakoperoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/mibataxozorupopevum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccd32fdf4b85fa3aecdb997f839126dd/kejubukisew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f4e634894fdb50a826d77d35aedf05b/rozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc39e11bbd624013c6747a4858efd8aa/gadoderebumazoketiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c60db41932---zakimisejolelerolowene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fo6bg16p9joa5p07ih2khru5v3/donegadomogapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609497da148dd---nimelogajajiwofotesavibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhospitalities.com/images/bulk_images/files/33338987440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3b450cc67---josinezisapaxufimeder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea19a7c639fac060373542f095d1f7e0/vesadeloloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/bibekarebiwigogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/75170071418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088aaf58558f---dasoxajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/zerep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkkck.com/uploadfile/file/20210620205358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=monsieur+ibrahim+et+les+fleurs+du+coran+analyse+livrePDF 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_off00010512.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10512 19164 bytes
SHA-256: dbd0ad7e08d24a80503638d6518eaedaa65c0f6ac586a72f3b9ff2c6a48499b3
font_01_sfnt_off00013453.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13453 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 4bae9b0d5050afa34c0f68a8fe5a65ac097a4da049b915eb68a318bc1c7d20fd
font_02_sfnt_off00014e43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1