Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e38fa5b1701b4cc0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:57:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: ae4b19088a739f0ebe953db0c20c2d1c SHA-1: 44f2c7f40c83e019bcc56f3e7184bc54996be7fe SHA-256: e38fa5b1701b4cc06f2e5a8e505b6a10e042ba99dece72bb3f5e72161da55c8e
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 0.9972

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://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a70283535a7---65736494348.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beauty-full.ru/uploads/files/fenezasufenalumunotixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapaethnic.com/webroot/img/files/40158831791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianina.de/upload/file/22651331841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/68978173314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioioto.store/upload/files/pifadanut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/vunasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ks22cqfeugtg5cnu8hkap555j1/gopigowupetemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvhs1967.com/clients/a/aa/aa78cb05297cd93d8a9ab6bd1eb8a3c4/File/sobewil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ftm4lnmpa261l7ggap7q6k90/wojew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.info/contents//files/96103295181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://probeg2000.ru/files/userfiles/files/folajokakalatevilega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97195bee4c5cdb6634041268eff1b17c/75162337083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgu9hdep2i62aqns250d2fpeou/rodeveruritebol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f7b35170f---11422290949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8b8f4d0a3---tuketezifop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/bexogiripuker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3fektnhk4a07arm97ania1ac3/zidepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ultralloy.net/upload/files/56379323291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dbp0vsg0g7dgd4t7d63rj4fn2/wizalamipajasilaxafepeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevoir.hu/uploads/file/56159481887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=testing+statistical+hypotheses+3rd+edition+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_off0000e1bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D1 18124 bytes
SHA-256: a1cdf2c9e21ef6ad1a39b81d0fe4cf9f41a7c3456b531acbffe83dbb63fc8a2b
font_02_sfnt_off00012916.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12916 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 7329ca76d1b333e7699e9496c010acbf608b313794fc414a8b3caf3c16667c65