Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db0123e6837864de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.0 KB Created: 2021-08-23 13:35:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 5a08a5e222fe3d2026647eab8cf52fe2 SHA-1: cbe21e0bc4ac0df6d69e740105aca5b082069ba9 SHA-256: db0123e6837864de0a85a4b57a78d093bcc901943e53ee00dae507dd854b41a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://thriftstorewebsites.com/flash/thriftstorewebsites.com/file/23699386735.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqkeq8dbef2q2g4295tjcqqlh6/ruleseluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ronaldtan.nl/images/photo/71830272857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/39614174943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/gefavijisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfb5c457a1---ponamorovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/462d9391bc256800e3dc11b229b19dda/62926758817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a50ace6efa2454c601fa82af4665f13/ruwamunupada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c62a67fcf90bfc25a16ce1b7152928e8/fidimomewenexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdej8cjh6tgr1finq2nj8hmp05/85905718082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad0a01c3ce6ff368b5643d47cfef1942/kononisifikom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cu-mbc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82414207834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720796d33d4---21611278977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funagamex.vn/PhuongNamGroup/userfiles/files/tezupuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5d5dccb6ac---83059370436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranhdaquyhn.com/uploads/news_file/42167017591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/7540092967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a025872d58c---dikaxipafunomovifekepopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/17510372468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/77415247009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanhotel.ro/beficientconsultingFiles/file/nunosasosazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cipetbhopal.com/webimg/files/43756771241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=what+do+cotton+top+tamarins+eatPDF 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_off0001755e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1755E 18996 bytes
SHA-256: 7d40fdaddcfee449c20161dbb341e73f95c871492d81ebdb88d0769e4789ac90
font_01_sfnt_off0001a594.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A594 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 0245ff8518090d82eae437b5d2dc66df159c917e21c7a9a8c6f85dc1afba0c9c
font_02_sfnt_off0001be0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BE0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1