Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dadaed40e75fdce4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

130.0 KB Created: 2021-08-13 18:42:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: e573c629a3fa550cce3fe05f9415227d SHA-1: b916fc61fd19cb3b0259ba2b7f458c1e35d92d3c SHA-256: dadaed40e75fdce43f17ac79d065ec58f899cb193565e5faa99ffbe57fe58103
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b80e04987c672d95592a6a424ab1d4c/25562419257.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63f26b6058---62596379469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e870e477f---68331137336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/77156652329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a134744d430---38401222628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.borzabadi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95584381509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10443123248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurmateng.com/contents//files/642560319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/3040788972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/61534726178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/89752450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/15180687303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075be47c0cfc---kesuvazudusonotiligemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/vedimejopimezezubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a55dde49bd8---81830335060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210715150308_1021554822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ad3596d2135c5025e6104fcccc95bd9/fuguwovevogipikoniwofixus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/75659198909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasmedm.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fatitilikazufip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63657dc896---31806244323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermangroupcorp.com/clients/3/38/389628ddbd62db2fa1e4299ecdfc1861/File/zipedapajawixufitazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9164658ddb---punitokiledadereka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pusigor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+brass+instruments+make+their+soundPDF 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://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_off000198ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x198EA 18016 bytes
SHA-256: a257cc1e8cbdbb80c01e9ae16420e37cbaf348244af05ff688a188e5b7b789e0
font_01_sfnt_off0001c801.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C801 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001e018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E018 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 492d0bf5dcc0e3f2325c75d33af61af3f3834db3ae28c7c6e05d13678ade7208