Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd12e062b3ebbe18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-06-13 18:48:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: b899d5b08c878cd4c2cb489f68c40ec9 SHA-1: 22ef42f8038201ca99ae26f0d9ed0caa62941dc4 SHA-256: dd12e062b3ebbe18dcad03c74d4e6dd0026037dc1d48dd901b91333b1a7eb19e
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 0.9997

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+talking+hank+hack PDF link annotation
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/90118059101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/43690812797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/nozisuzifozuwuvud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/xowezunidurilites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef9d80ceb8---426592966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c19430f4d7f333d2ed00f7b1fd15226/gogosoredetezitek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalnetworks.de/www.galabau-poscher.de/main/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78806883705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/46652217115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c83be2c844---xuxekogezuwurudedizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/426ge720u4tj4hq0a8ink4uuvd/penazuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-10/20210510185502130797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609584c25967a---73851225520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b71d9e321---zavenunifomij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3a713460fafc0e6f9cedd806af17e04/gelegobovetilezepasibifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/jagake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f14d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF14D 4956 bytes
SHA-256: 34c5e8deb2c72b25a1b814f1dfecfe9b53452a0c88ea2f662ef6b5b40c9a57fe
font_01_sfnt_off00010248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10248 20076 bytes
SHA-256: 0b29674a30f3778a27817ecd263d55b81f0945f3e77c586345b9741444720f10