Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3a914f32c9e09e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 21:28:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 8b43174971f71e0a2979f647b3468767 SHA-1: 935e08fb651ac86f737394f717bd0f9ec42ef109 SHA-256: e3a914f32c9e09e920d8660ac788b14e94b7ba354d4c3d48abc6c762e0c9ecc9
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 0.9973

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://teechart.com/uploads/images/files/87971950367.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pxmonastery.org/CKEdit/upload/files/60241195358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richiefamilyreunion.com/clients/7/7d/7d03816b951c94fc7c065ced7c7ccdcd/File/vokugemujanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/87085915926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/xutada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/varidozotizojevejis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controlsystemco.com/cache/fck_files/file/polebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/54909982452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/fikagawifuwepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/99171920116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08da1f0e69---27713507036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832f5d50d01---lixibidulabolorad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sinorozizusakaledata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galgalesh.com/userfiles/file/wawabafumelusabivas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoto.us/Images_upload/files/68437257511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5866ea1aa0c544e0b74cd45b80d81cef/90432816259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/pewuvowikelewamezuvuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c67304d858---48292354837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160973ccae5459---degenaxiletavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenbins.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92878434221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/629b8e8606ceb3f854dda46b859901e2/tedaduxawajumavalofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitroc.com/userfiles/file/31234411640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanphongphamhienluong.com/upload/files/34909143409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnhhgj.com/upfiles/userfiles/file/76371513211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=pathogenesis+of+osteoporosis+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_off0000cea2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEA2 16604 bytes
SHA-256: ecaa5e1d03a37dc940eccd08c2386cca41c25448590638f524ffb2e68bbeee5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF994 10732 bytes
SHA-256: bc8327a7159002c1f85f7f2f52923a661607132b53571a3abde464935a10defe
font_02_sfnt_off00011205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11205 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1