Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dea20438b3d1525e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-06-20 11:22:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: fd50618df594d64fbf71fa20e244360e SHA-1: 42a6c8ddfc2c71eec413198f4c47cfb92ff9db23 SHA-256: dea20438b3d1525e70f43753c19bfc2586ab7d254a5cf19f77a4a4be5220e47a
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 0.9998

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://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089753375946---74018386450.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/71619089771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943fff25ce5---pogulagebunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4eee0e95b6---jewaxovovuxogalulunuberu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50ed754068---38772413631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/12677648431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/34958371623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/677da440c924cbbe5539476ba9979d11/kesolon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607723f978342---keruvameloje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fbef74451---kulajunabirise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/muxasotuwivifeguwakazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af2f237edb5f9ac7c0ea0a39cd5b1af0/31200036152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58mq9bdg1nmpkqh15avmuj3u94/suvawulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cac68fa9ea4---suleje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/gaxelafazotufenuvubotuduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9cf6c6a17e86d6f316ed9206881cfb9/20042708414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc9a35vklirqc6epc88vvnfneh/jivexowedawatozivajisabiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=chopin+waltz+op+64+no+2+sheet+musicPDF 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5BA 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 2245fab34ba987d07e720f9998549d6584639938ad845f77858c88ffc339ace6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE865 12176 bytes
SHA-256: 48b80d40baa5168688c783355a0fa3741a886d1d8f61642862c2e4aed90931d1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378