Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e79401111cfd66ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-03 01:32:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e6b9678d81ea534da141c4678ef729ff SHA-1: 2239af32af54d3f963d3f83db7b421e018512556 SHA-256: e79401111cfd66cea2483fe29bef6ff02bb98d955dbf3e45f8a125110ff1b819
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9996

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 http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909145ce9a5---59412933227.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/802b03c4e44845997bcd13159a7055f2/23545573645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a279c290acd---gigadukexolil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creptiles.dk/userfiles/file/7825351958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acdb450ace7---putodijewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebde39bfda---9215216184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghocasiochinhhang.net/uploads/userfiles/file/lugorepet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/taxumajufavitof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ff6669245---36506851473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00638046329ab6eda9e1ef8a4ab07966/dipomibupuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f48e99311---jugoxojosodogetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/57541245665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/9896185994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e92470fd2cfc17078ce1fafa700a2679/ragarukarijunotuxilisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=flushed+away+2006+trailerPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000118bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118BC 5488 bytes
SHA-256: 43e99f31e008e77b83846455b1c3e070cea75509c465b646db55df563dea7a0e
font_01_sfnt_off00012b74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B74 11852 bytes
SHA-256: d8b90b3456cfd6bae4a6e587f962143db58ff1296df448ba27d28cf0b078c664