Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3a122b89e8ca102…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 13:21:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 53676ff18946d66ce6e359760efecf3e SHA-1: c236b6d78346280080a482d56965690ddff4fa44 SHA-256: e3a122b89e8ca10210d3d657b82b8677c362afe75cbebf8a9a5a3e4df36ccc91
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 0.9951

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://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/webunaveraxipubom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b93a9b5b163---ronofosunejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nima7dft8vdfq7bbo3hr11b7d2/43673595296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gg2g1hjsa7odl978m1258ce8og/61890677686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb00e2b299---ruvoduzavakaxonovolegedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96ejski62ftcravtpd9oou254p/pasugivikitilufedider.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05bf8aa145ec8933a02029a2e595caf6/nugizuxifizunarubuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc4c5bfc8ce9dfb2602592651d9b5a18/90270466779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vdui24734uu4im6iinjed5kk0/vulogulonijowan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c98b58db69---2149765805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e838ab824c---99683157110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/koruwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/jelofazolatufasibifif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rt47n80it1sisr1nm2fr3uo9g0/73451271702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinacafe-dalat.com/Images_upload/files/29633212614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aeb62e40860f749cd114e645313b305/nivugapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c7b5t3ofvr7dr44k56n194kp1/fuwiwejozopunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871a12958c3---nodagujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27497612727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gt6ek9j4shnquu04ich5soltvd/19340418627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charontrade.hu/data/file/24150666351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db36508549d8f072ee0ad6d6b7423e8d/95423125868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xevurifunuzarakinajog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p5sm0spkmt8l4tq80mtpjvivnd/15424854751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=foreign+freight+forwarderPDF 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_off0000e993.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE993 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 00b9a748e720aedcc14796b321f361361d8c4d1d872ce3d471d52c3c7aaba1d9
font_01_sfnt_off0001012b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1012B 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 835627bc829cfe5728a9f932b24d3f3940f1a386e29c983f9f8c4a68e1910469
font_02_sfnt_off00012e0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1