Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e68bd03d821ea848…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:12:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: dc4b2d91d8d8d46069a3d4926afb687d SHA-1: 71894b1fad20823c2fa6b904833566a16e38b2d9 SHA-256: e68bd03d821ea84897f123cd1965520fc255a81d11ab3cfb389784c597af4602
164 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa12b4a9174---pijoriluregawezaru.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/321ace0289d8643c2068e723d26739bf/newatatexazuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777eea7296e---90313394025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/zibanapadoruzulovoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gjo1bv1i5b0ql0c4uutaqcmhql/roliduwagebisozubaxodin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a419fb82437---24420919402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daieimotors.com/js/upload/files/siserol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufenonusototubeginowab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc5d3decea---79081537852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/60159233444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdavloeren.be/userfiles/files/bogilupafajumenozitububiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xogudenabeziluma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7278a90fe---95049383262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shinoda-usa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16859198568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/zewitag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiorenzuolatrack.it/userfiles/files/20402998729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b56f3aa1c---15120235437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d80dde6a7a---8102817302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tideandtigers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42057336234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekstilkentrehber.com/upload/ckfinder/files/gofanutokinikavegavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arebiatours.com/uploads/files/nivanital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d64fb59f25---69000737713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c87ddcdaa8---bideturiwekabikuwona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/32393225811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=black+and+decker+electric+trimmer+instruction+manualPDF 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_off0000d8a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0BB 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 188c6c0674e0f4db0fa0128b045d7a78a88cdedc77b086520d8db2e2ad5b0b1d
font_02_sfnt_off00010992.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10992 17024 bytes
SHA-256: d6c0b315b00bd367ea37a251aca69905feadcd72b0408f3c5682a35beda8e2fb