Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df321208dc217f81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.4 KB Created: 2021-06-09 17:19:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 20e2d63d051d19d45d36c1ce3cd0f68b SHA-1: ccc14f5a1883098f3ce5620c374c5a40e24676fd SHA-256: df321208dc217f81a713cb0aad78a253f6b769f721b7c1d4bfb060bd86ebabe8
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 0.9991

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+writing+task+2+sample+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885d0a80ccd---54481494809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainbowcaterers.in/userfiles/file/84002522540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/98579714887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/79992990519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703fb1a31d7---nowoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076acc313c78---tatijabujafewit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f88317bfdbb3dd465e56c7531a5308cb/foluze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c526927a4---bugenekuxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5fdc0c6b1---dunitisidovosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcacb78efc---welaruvozega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/bofakatebufuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/1251935788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a62134062---minagimerimerewalivove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainbowcaterers.in/userfiles/file/64322084735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a6baa6dac---8695047981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60ba1ad36202558f65f6e675ec6c427e/37007691989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off000184a6.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x184A6 23064 bytes
SHA-256: b850ab321ca56f2e5d3dbd5a8d6086218429411b299ea3164d4a9753e1f461d1
font_00_sfnt_off00012f77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F77 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 03cd1c2aac362d5112dca8067bbc03faaf9467730cf000065fcf4b81ff6e0404
font_01_sfnt_off00014144.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14144 6932 bytes
SHA-256: 6cfe0f910d702a93c8f16c15645bf15120cb819e62bc43806b67c0b482349585
font_02_sfnt_off00015419.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15419 18344 bytes
SHA-256: 1259ce0df1fbf3abe870b00d93f3e93990ee577176289da15894b91c7512e157
font_04_sfnt_off0001ad08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AD08 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c