Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d23168a10fbabfd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-05-07 04:17:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 7dc1c8120ba5b8b29ff1b321fbfcd98b SHA-1: 5e0e58c1170c21c1da933886b8d7f65fff6726be SHA-256: d23168a10fbabfd9dd7de89ec514858acb245c816d24444af4115041eca6472d
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://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff7c9239d8---3678062062.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12c7012663f3d0d27c9bf269557b2d01/28495686944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/92437409481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7d2bvt94n1fr8uk9e3s85oh5r/17209242222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d895fb2230---tuwetuwafovitepepasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608760b1e3856---13794074734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee32dd6a76cb258234c6cefb756a6d91/nivigukevikugamidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd0749ea58---mugalarenuwujebikodipukon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b314d8d10---xarijurug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3f354b820---pipekupukenokefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb6af1b8fd---32833114034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077de5d83ce7---torofarovesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6efv9kjog2am0c4jisi3qv2r10/gikuporatutamubufepixolup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/769233a60c67237419c0a229b2b8679b/melikisefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609135294e563---95546233190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/004ae4505e00d99cf9724a1f9d6e62e3/wexaronoruzezekawel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/671m75sde8r4e58jrs7v92i8l8/xotirusibutututivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087be6cdecc3---xipug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a84ef19a5---jagupujuzexonuxe.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/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=blank+timeline+template+for+powerpointPDF 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_off0000d990.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD990 5076 bytes
SHA-256: c21c2e8085d855e0e63fffa6a19d6e5ba4189a12887875725b074c40c7114954
font_01_sfnt_off0000ead2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD2 9816 bytes
SHA-256: 28e706c86a41f65a7ad68d82b94ca754a449f9123c96f42e9bce74eec4ec7cb5