Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2b01c574f1f7385…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.8 KB Created: 2021-06-23 12:52:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: ed1a2495f51ad6257ee84fc3008bde0a SHA-1: 29093ebb8d78a97765393568c25180c398d7bf8b SHA-256: c2b01c574f1f73856b620b1c13a848f04d21cb81b00f97c91d6ee9770399ef95
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 0.9998

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 http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edd1316e8ff49eee3df5fb3ffb18a735/puxoragorobinunobunixi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160996bb6c08c1---tuxipugojexorafafilezojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21830ebec1---25428258445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkbflooringusa.com/userfile/abbey/file/lukejemaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/42824561675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092af646ad15---20559011284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/77296990372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b78e80191a8---muxidom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/34822789873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8e29d2d3999817f7dafa15d0496a42/95520836677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a31a4c1cd08ea3757bf2f688ab976fe6/50469650295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc6e02bc566ad1a136d2495ddc2e3fe0/sifofamogadizalivezafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a566749280f---xijijiwosavupadaluripeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/wogijukusobonesanusiwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-3/20210603055850938186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1ouk741cbcg82ei2jvhfb4ac6/nazofonutupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=haff+and+triplettPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16868 4820 bytes
SHA-256: c7b4a35b259ebc1cdcad4ebcb9f8fff528dd35ad604a53c1383fa619cfd92bc1
font_01_sfnt_off000178dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178DC 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 6cd5a374604650ef4f84141886ee63e4f399315a91c77458cb5badb4b06b17b1