Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5b7a8aa78977aa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-06-20 09:15:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 7db0f68d5a6bc092c9c0711f18a09f66 SHA-1: 1739dd623d48e908a2d4e46f00e49032c3da28d0 SHA-256: d5b7a8aa78977aa9c2ccb74d602f5677dae7c477f1a6d062dae55582db40cf0f
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://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609014fa54a04---46667204851.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ddbbc49ac---27229243584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f52fbe3010---pinelosuxajud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d474fe8bfe---tukakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74ae96bfce---munotewuvupefovonekunipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8sdg0o32aadu5cd0tls6l5rv3/30376789713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7bc2d79237---sexesevixuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seashoresilverlabradors.com/clients/4/48/482fd9669fb3260065120a60ccac5e48/File/26138427037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a165d204c93e18b78df2d82934eae4cf/mijudiliridegikewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41dc47edc7333b72de43d31a8c1c6ac4/xuzipumezewejuvusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64f0c54bfefdd69c9cb402b6d1c64187/merikaraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/nutadanirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747dfb84a68---14614719682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/26261940980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71550c0e032e0c18da598f7a03395878/27607759298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c16cc5cde94---89780123301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47651382459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/fakixewurovejefoxixedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/255d37d837b3a6fc56e4f574b0d57ff2/galupeluredobodobox.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/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=cbse+class+10+maths+notesPDF 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
    • 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_off0000e715.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE715 5184 bytes
SHA-256: c5c6b5ff64e89384520a37c2562e94fa8c0860884f9f4a69551fd3dc4ab9ca50
font_01_sfnt_off0000f891.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF891 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 8adbd11923ed140d23a682474e64687f8218f5a9b79eb762234b6acd967d793c
font_02_sfnt_off00011c89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C89 16456 bytes
SHA-256: ce398869721ce226f29b3f38a2f12ab10b2125c081d621006428099c0a5dffdf