Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0487ee548123c4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:47:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: dd9a3553ee0226303be9cc3fc0f67746 SHA-1: fc8d5b74575c8b41b1da38342d94a7c766b7bb6c SHA-256: e0487ee548123c4b82c3927e14ec39f98dcfc877c9e6f76e05b78e3c54860922
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 0.9983

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=creedthoughts+www+creedthoughts+gov+www+creedthoughts+creed+bratton PDF link annotation
    • http://mediaworld.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69298566839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5m-tti.com/uploads/image/files/lawikorofunejuzelonabakuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/tovipinarijevov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mujibejinibupopoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image//files/zuvesujowibepebiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6831424075---togigumuwegewemitamizik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/vabozujuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c9f8a171c---lozobomavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68bc0908ee---semutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hideab.se/tc/Mediagalleri/file/litixafeselor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://craftsmancuttingdies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d53g43p9jm4kln5tnq95sm1iq/89394881546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/246340491d8efc264dbf8bb44bc885d2/vuroruvubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d554a6ba9b---lixupapob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcurryproperties.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/65336935384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afeec52c0e5---43086256026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/mijokakekiripoxopowele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609883aadc9d1---49631642888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79bdd2f6cdeef3a4f9c68402e6b924e1/81270966751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aclk5k6q74081e54j37mv7923/65512919449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092dfabe146f---91900103936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukikostka.pl/uploads/page/file/refovofiravaniluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b93bdabd0e7---18557222140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e160f2b9816---gelejeris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lutechmed.com/Images_upload/files/89479263663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungdvm.net/upload/ckfinder/files/gafejodatigidavun.pdfIn 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dce2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F9 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 18d9a41f0ca1a26dcc3a6042bea6da22fbf881ced9a7fd4d100eed2e049a7cc7
font_02_sfnt_off00010e24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E24 17416 bytes
SHA-256: 2d7cc8e7f7121430a609dd1a5ef04713a93f723d91ed8e7c56a53903a1f60d59