Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e26f3254775b4059…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:04:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bc0689649461454b96838247a1a0fc7b SHA-1: 6c454b13a20fb3040e17ebc8709af77fcef2bbae SHA-256: e26f3254775b40597da5391a59feff58fc8d11d1355111a049f817be23873e39
196 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 0.9970

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4d74c0667096f1f5c0f4762851f2331/54304413624.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://drivescuolaguida.it/userfiles/files/sumuxiwovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.com/E/file/volome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/xedakotaginugigegelif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210816/21081610334634413029yrgxcu07st.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/71029870181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/31245536219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa4c42d1ea55f079ba59b05ad0b96694/xinuratevuxorabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/lisejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cristal-in.fr/userfiles/file/vorulexumigogesexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/tigewapirezebisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210509011649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sankofalectureseries.com/clients/a/ae/ae3037074ff26ae8502dacd236f4ced8/File/noxufivibaguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubitanduk.com/contents//files/xizun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatherjansch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/timemokulimodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/31815174914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4546ca7122e5a66bcafdaaad0b3650f0/94325025825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkncft7l6gk94nb8gvv6makba7/30187063152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856c59bc39b---kudivigipidevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e76df2f69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/kibakaneriserevumero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa569aae8b072441965a9fd16df5813f/sotefiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doublehappyvstheinfinitesadness.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba0ee4b589---90933160109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210615200241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948fb8e5e56---1168855067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=definition+of+homosexuality+pdfPDF 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_off00013c9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C9B 19108 bytes
SHA-256: c10001ec4d892f8c8fd29432bae437d25c2a5727e00495e71db59e230302f448
font_01_sfnt_off00016dfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16DFB 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 7d4b15be40b2e0d2bb2e32b516a7644a6dcb6401f377792f4e382246ef594590
font_02_sfnt_off0001875b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1875B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1