Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e23ec178e75b0a30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-08-24 20:44:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 7369726d416cb20270e6455203542692 SHA-1: 223fe5fbcb3d2a5360b50ced908a2f32925cd817 SHA-256: e23ec178e75b0a30cb206d9437cbdfc6d6ad5d3d906b69e9f49411decd658249
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 0.9991

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 http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/81871761676.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3skesdil8shh1k3l67rftr9a9s/77838197482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tietalbosp1bvqdhg2h8k6p2p0/5235712955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792feacfa10---5036208266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160923a9f2839e---15050223111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74992dc2cf---34170561779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/bodutawunefepipuwesokuvam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lilitoxizafebiful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/dasuxamapomiwoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704e605c1d6---80919221550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbmedax.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/70876722184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca5536b2097---40985698733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/81136446061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geasit.it/userfiles/files/48393286261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dchs80.com/clients/c/cb/cbc185099defa3274d3d4f74835fd64f/File/99318063169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnlestari.com/visitbali/image/files/66325281593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/it2n74r7tc1e62di4loeeks62n/vawejakizeboxanuvewifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785ff6d0d97---60910829221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf7b7cb78fa---68513722079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b7kkaiss2cnhai8lj3gpl5m84/zebogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f19c5fa3430c83e01f23a8215b23423/27940376671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qed0d6mo504peofkg27slj8ogs/11374913467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612171b1e9a61---75674996268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=indesign+export+pdf+highest+qualityPDF 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_off0000ddf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDF9 11188 bytes
SHA-256: c44172f267e3ad2ffa2b27f8aced4933fa8b63c2afeb01302e3c8a93089f59b6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f78d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF78D 17304 bytes
SHA-256: ad9aec2231686a1f988badcfa2542628658be2417b270f99936e0e7b6e7b0560
font_02_sfnt_off00012522.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12522 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1