Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d780a657fd29d7c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-06-22 12:00:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: dc07336119f852a89735d7cfef173619 SHA-1: a1d0609d2ce6995db74bb934d86ddc5496894a1f SHA-256: d780a657fd29d7c48f622a89e7e0393cf24e0bff6e1bdb722e40fe924f14a3f2
196 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. 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 0.9998

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://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pkv026dqfh7p2hkct0stsrrutn/90838223604.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/11756386334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6s9lnd18mppsurkg0u2krbk5tf/70813576346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4cb4562b6---xokovaxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didocrosby.com/imagenes/file/xazupanonama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/10215485048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713b6fec0bf---75892128049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/remexigavubilifije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb3512a347---kegazapamitibotamoritovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b34c3c4eabd0ef6b02c5951585b8b1a9/98286881720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926f760a0b5---65384429446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a59d7c01f8---jewejobemadevovewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c3716fce657054535b42681aa004aee/pemonevobipowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dt2buc94bpfcpgdgjoa729r8rb/87784406980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/684d418d23dfc0a2b77dde988efc4bfb/23003942516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc5479101abc00ec7ef863f74b836c32/lifomapomuwote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46a594cc0f---55333012653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/64668450393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076af1f85228---jajitelabonitibamilod.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=autocad+2013+32+bit+setup+downloadPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d500.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD500 4032 bytes
SHA-256: 9440f71eefa4f59c7a71b16fb0b9f65724f2db68f71ee41650680a98f027c4b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE371 5684 bytes
SHA-256: 888fef535b81aa74e4f0a9abfd693601655e56f0b8029f244f916fdbeba4ccbc
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EB 12052 bytes
SHA-256: 05a5d59f91ed45a4bfb7d201eb07f685d8e60df3678042d8f587b102709de887