Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d49ede90ace9e370…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-06-18 23:28:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 65c174c78d2002fb032ee4fa233bcbe0 SHA-1: 38380fe66dbfb12325bebb25bf57c75969a29db5 SHA-256: d49ede90ace9e37069aea8e9cc39ac5c457f439123a50c2f46e504284ed65f50
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 0.9694

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://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e629eb7af4ea9dc68c2fcda7b237abdf/22675495835.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/23833097905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bcdbb7deed---gajuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708c9613f60---29291356271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c268668a63---xavubif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070147926d4c---8081812984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa307a123a7---velejavowezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modamoda.nl/uploads/pic_lib/file/dejiziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finemetal-cn.com/upload/files/luwopiwoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c7eac5e5d---95662731861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0b6bde29300f9fe37d4220c80603041/86572958049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oj0q4dbmb2qme60674qpg1d7f9/21803572626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f15c1cabed---fakimosudotokij.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mp3+protestant+amharic+mezmurPDF link annotation
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bf35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF35 40872 bytes
SHA-256: edef58bd2766c2efc0b30a8c2a3a104bb0fcc51c3b1d9dd64e4b285f5a375f15
font_01_sfnt_off0001288e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1288E 3080 bytes
SHA-256: 3b90b89b73af2f2ceb6011e4ea43b4ffdfd997636b4cadfa3327501efc56bb00
font_02_sfnt_off00013394.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13394 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 01d38f542040d748d66b100f02dd15799c7ae73c9e2b08ca00f3c1fb4197d924
font_03_sfnt_off000145b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145B6 10012 bytes
SHA-256: c272e02500a4a292a79e0282ec85621f4ee132d245c5f9f0d8d8563e7cce8ba7