Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e93abc4c9957aae0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:32:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 7c0eb29b19cc779983f606bfaa12a3e2 SHA-1: 5a2784fcf27d23a55863291f129a797fc0698546 SHA-256: e93abc4c9957aae01c712aa81223ef5f7c65bcf965499ef5d1eebcc0e984d0ed
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 0.9975

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://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a51701897---71521876602.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0a6bced76---41146324537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duythuc-bearing.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/70945207465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceab4525e89---pedepuxezibetuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e71b490c2a---vabakajuxizogivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079abf9edcb4---sewefimoluluri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turinhotelcompany.com/userfiles/files/tobikarigixapiwesujojiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3e4abde58---majofenipubijamorodirek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0621d2c21d1f22bc94e576bfa0c36d6/96813381263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rcvlf85046r20ai8lep045mk54/28514672924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaimano.it/file/20514814830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/36820915020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marmarases.com/upload/ckfinder/files/84221671125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soeurs-scjboran.fr/soeurs/upload/files/kabozukotukira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/19906956789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gea99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76914991218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021061702583929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/16780457602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e88ace327---wagexovibef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021070119343234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbcb260bf6---bugokumimug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boissee.fr/userfiles/file/35353970448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/sugitunejibizusogepurabab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd5093b03e94325137ba603a5f1120c/32200637472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/momirivipirajusebepuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=milwaukee+m12+impact+driver+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_off0000cc69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC69 17684 bytes
SHA-256: 17f13ce4c88a6972a384a27c2800adcc8203099ce8001faaa4dad5f93a55efaf
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1B 10896 bytes
SHA-256: b53407b0bb7cb28c41761c2204de5ae121f30b1fceda922bf86c2425b812c7fe
font_02_sfnt_off00011369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11369 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1