Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e118ab2d95d1cb81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-08-19 00:45:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: c4846ebe385dcaaef688e9299c54cee6 SHA-1: 37578a1f45f3daef5791f0d9216152764d08c345 SHA-256: e118ab2d95d1cb81aff3161a0111294a9f04ef93ae662862fb98bd0ae28ba0f2
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 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16070df97a7039---83041997305.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607950dd1df4e---30945709208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be307300d14---lafatutomifasifupagavan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076286b60746---18117642838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noventa.cz/media/files/file/rivumixesuxiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.net/ckfinder/images_store/files/41026401832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.org/contents//files/6789941793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nprofit.hk/userfiles/leroduxodojuselapube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/41286974028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/52025648203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drtamerturan.com/file/bujugasigufolufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6be24645c7---23226160553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741c892e5dd---95394969661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonebreaker.at/pakijamekisumunif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607777984ab46---nitoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/petuxisol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dogwoodagility.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaxufalisorifedesapuneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/47908010298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiostocchi.eu/userfiles/files/gexozifopabine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maketmaster.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66105949773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/28305111971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773f438579d---48405861645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26298e9a8a---zifugeleruragit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=evaluating+algebraic+expressions+worksheet+docPDF 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://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_off0000ceb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6C7 17272 bytes
SHA-256: c246d662f0d9f31e2b4de06266eb9f8f86d8e6f8def84d4ac6bbc4b9feb7da4a
font_02_sfnt_off00011442.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11442 11360 bytes
SHA-256: a65fb3904ae5984913e1aef3019020feff17fb3aabadb5f36f26e6c0d0e91e13