Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de6a36c9a1a08d25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-06-22 22:58:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 957ae5742e6fa0606e53bff2d427760e SHA-1: 20dcfa12e727158328f14b178595d8cdd7f1d84e SHA-256: de6a36c9a1a08d256c47484659835ae1d13a8f54220fd89c64356702d2561c74
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1553.005 Antivirus Software Disabled

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a password-protected-archive lure and a security-bypass 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 0.9996

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087179b940b8---nedipukoba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://upchealth.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/440c74f4b11d9eab84152b52378a0a52/banepusiguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/dofokaxogip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd8b6e2426---janifenuvoxalazenoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/33272559122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73a64c01c32b3db68e90c886cd4b6a8c/62412083239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/sizofirozures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0fdfff6bb33c7bd297a400e478a4527/46320236426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b5acb3777---36177463554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f92298e2d2548cb80612c19db2246ec3/11445015977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf86d305ad---53782677581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc74002456---runopowobosujavida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7q2aek58ttlsuj2hujtbti9lsq/29547943540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/loxotekizevab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jn6mpd78m1knr0p1ma2l5gha35/49563911570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607454c7e1968---73263289518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartenvue.net/appart/upload/images/46585037118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a866e44123---20420794232.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/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=onetap+csgo+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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c8d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D6 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 8ed8648a53e7434adba13e1a64fa547669b92928dd8c6c4a83b87c54f3da3d9d
font_01_sfnt_off0000dadb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDADB 3040 bytes
SHA-256: 8e9fdc39d77988e9e20da5645b2afdbf1976d2c6f4306f2602a24cc6cdd3ee88
font_02_sfnt_off0000e755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE755 12132 bytes
SHA-256: fabad1bedc9c54cfea81c1f1e92e97542cf083836abf5d07c1baf0c625c8a66c
font_03_sfnt_off0001106a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1106A 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 354dce64f07f3d7acdf6a04edf763950ffbfec4edcbb4bfe17b65a83544077bb