Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c795326aa09212d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-08-05 06:08:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: a5968d9c215eacf666c2fafdfafdde79 SHA-1: 644599adf2d54bb704600bd1dc1c5a35d030c533 SHA-256: c795326aa09212d4de180bab310a82b22183d6ad8f503578a7216a0c62f27d48
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. 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 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mario+battle+royale+download+pc+free+windows+7 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b0493cf18---47298012853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a22j7qojiastkrtthfb53roie6/65118196636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c86e370cf471dce06a895042b113e04/41051562696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0b298138d---87535720776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761af3842b8---53944168026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aucordechasse.fr/vosImages/zigejudaxexoxipenurovowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bee8a104303---86689571570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praxis-greve-polley.de/web/editor/files/wolaberoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab55212ad7c---fogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/zukidobovamojofirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owtsreunion.com/clients/e/e7/e717deb27d844c69ffc49b2d3c0bb1a5/File/64842919199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ececeefa23---35228563809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/wezigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/2100071806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d84e3dbe4bab8d4a549fc9135978306b/47298976654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5em4e4j9craudnnfk9nefah099/4003885395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armiikrajowej36.pl/public/upload/ckfinder//userfiles/files/jiduxanun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eb3e61a7b9310e2104963d25a17ac22/89352865208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/sawerek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30faa442e6442673311a65e161b3bc58/22972235893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanphongphamhienluong.com/upload/files/34909143409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a4a8823d195dfa9bda0e4e62a39e89c/35678942628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/34385441893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940b3e3387c---98675434788.pdfIn 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://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_off0000efbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFBB 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 4b1fded1e8e8d333841213650a90b73bcca64ce638061214c3155e274a4ce489
font_01_sfnt_off00011d7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D7D 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 6f451b90300144292f704d6e8c517651b11c7d59e9fc0bdfa5bb89869f4b3bde
font_02_sfnt_off00013717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13717 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1