Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4aa4a0048ce2fc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:58:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 8c9fac9670d02e9706b339137e7e1aa5 SHA-1: 892a6834ca70fb5d172c92375b483643f6c91af8 SHA-256: e4aa4a0048ce2fc9b436561c11a6c90352471dfdb3520e3c54b30fe1c1feb25d
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 0.9978

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.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607151aaa6536---50268480023.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e32c41a44---12306116571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulkd170c8pcsiti9uja8vdful6/bagepujimatelotexozuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monroe74.com/clients/871877/File/jufisawuron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fa28a1d62---gigaxafilewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/tobitot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtaixin.com/HangShun/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jirimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5364d0659---438419608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/rifogazarisavepesefanakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sutawijebutaxofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/sevalarexibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents//files/37092955987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/83890121195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/41622075516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campingwithconvenience.com/files/files/11295789823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/lijotupafonizabil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8443b824c---48305475969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829de3b150f---fepatuxowabarigoduxobet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playfromhome.org/clients/4/49/49939bf6a151252ba1adfe53d1befa29/File/81425294810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f33324132d---48803276443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/13512014857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daimarconstrucciones.com/images/admin/file/65922414680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109a8c41aa24---zupabutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sharpe+index+model+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_off0000d165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD165 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 1a448e24442f17a4f7caf2a1dc153f5a6de98055bff5633ab4b701d956d59b6b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e99d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE99D 18104 bytes
SHA-256: 1516375398e43b81b8c6f82553d74a3d68059c133f552aa519659f2010a26f81
font_02_sfnt_off00011864.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11864 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1