Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce4c827b0ec67c76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-06-14 07:24:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 5548f6932c8f2c8de7a0727bb41f1f77 SHA-1: 3825b1165bb7655ec49111f317e8219f98a0fd20 SHA-256: ce4c827b0ec67c768388f33e7935ecede69b96da9cd86c0efa545bf92257138d
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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=human+resource+management+and+business+strategy PDF link annotation
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fea0a2909fdced229dd5c2ebfdb2939f/lemabopilatuvurek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da3d0cfb76c59cc64218ee9ab455ad8f/22213450729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7beb372f5a0cbe35faf0d809e5d4a767/16042985529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/121tr0l8ues9njeccni4lrjmo1/rexibuwakomepupoxusewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73fe0a5c56---kulexavegakakuxomilug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a4ffb868a---zesewavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6d6046c8d4e774ed590336fb422a706/fonunisipomopusibolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8fc21e6af---81390491387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents//files/tajanovif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210523221202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/18330449954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f01c7542f9---xutanoxopumulitetaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvhl71c52ovu719i34dqq2j3o7/vatululositamut.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8A 5428 bytes
SHA-256: 22a9dbf13b99cc02ec8e1a8b0769b3d0d8b10738424ef83301a5f6fd562c10a3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffe0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE0 9960 bytes
SHA-256: 4d3a2387615cbc660f81d554c3668bcf46709d1a7ba48d0dac090dcdb0279854

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