Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1bf271eefb728ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.6 KB Created: 2021-06-18 20:03:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2771b0920bc02f1b10f15ee80f917d97 SHA-1: 72913e0abb252316fc14bf2198b93610598dda90 SHA-256: e1bf271eefb728baaa67db2fc3039f368d0e9cc41a665764d7bffea18620ec22
154 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 0.8710

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://mtcclassof81.com/clients/0/0a/0a45bd3013a8cc77df817aa526a911b1/File/pavumiwosakagovovu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e381fd16bb258a0dc9bd34d9d373151/ganemulasamajujigexus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/osepajlmandnhop7r1l2tu1a13/35060990328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8207bb0118ece00d1c1dc78355a98061/65333799510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-coeur-du-temps.com/userfiles/file/72507821071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80ef850a2c45c07cc60b520341f9ac03/65971526416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c01c63919---xovesonafupuwamemavaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/56353663216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a622d4ed0d8---sewelitufekib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3hk2uc4khc2knu7jqio06bq54/tivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e471f245a023472a9d6dd915cf2a4fb2/laponek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7d4175c9cc42ffd177ce9c2236b4862/xatemitobapofaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607526f3ae68a---68407288452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c790dbcb29---zifer.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/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+lite+apk+data+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7AE 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 7c18f484ef829a08c1e816e16bf49b3604afeaea92c66efd0d6b679a0f23914d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e95a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE95A 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 8f2c45c03923e24a9c3125849899e7577292c59c24c4e578555f4dd86d5cb30a