Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db34ecd4d1e94520…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:14:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 46ea541daae700e5a96274d5de4961e8 SHA-1: e82a44ead17022ab12ba8ee21830ab25f69e9013 SHA-256: db34ecd4d1e94520502c56557dc7c4a7fb33133a51868dd19c933f4198af2645
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 0.9985

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/16082d7bab11c5---guwopefag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/70511907506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/wamaveti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetworkingpro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32044106166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67e5b0511e---37406563556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f473daa7d---lenokomudoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/zalunuterivosoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmontagna.com/userfiles/files/77002925949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consurs.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23366591549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/251844abcbcb14d4ee9e20cabc0a8047/15791717902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/kidupesalisazoful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/26046776781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c-effeimmobiliare.it/file/92028102423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d0c521eb1---43941044290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f583a8246cb8be98fe7e14f06efc1a3f/kozowibuxasidabagibijuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d84866607---64906972655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bfc31bcf52---vanomefutitejizoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9r4qm5gra28uoh32ru9t25qvt/gotukekatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ta-taiwan.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/pifalokuwemebejekerego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanegarrett.net/userfiles/file/92394804226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161114b10ef8f0---9440499005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=primo+levi+the+gray+zone+pdfPDF 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_off0000c399.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC399 18352 bytes
SHA-256: f9b282777d4076e85e988d92be3f8ad0d0257f1cd13ba76c31c1a9a40406f771
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BE 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 07d7d28760b367e6294914f21bcb6f9c576b517e1ccc371e8e8f12a6362edc42
font_02_sfnt_off00010c04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1