Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea4460f2d00d73be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-06-21 04:14:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 20d56ba1bb0c47b047839f0a90754a3e SHA-1: 0d2eb16da8997e9d0d8d82144a0399157d95452d SHA-256: ea4460f2d00d73be31f9345337d21b8767b3b7bd1fac6993abdff1c6033210bb
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 0.9993

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://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986e976c69c---pikitob.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c932bb1046---31821231390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6be8b547d8770c901d644878f1c0f2b8/xagojaxedekakubipojuzuvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6js4guvnt4iddq49rpcopocvo6/sumenezewumopejugivigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa3dea7505---91227512991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b65abfa8e---zepifik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-group.com/upload/files/33940499059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f526f228b5---14803534105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/23751715106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c2a5b2ffc---josexerarajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ac0104ba7---nuwuwuxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/98211819669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55bb986fd2---16310483963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/91029451065.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=freestyle+instrumental+mp3+downloadPDF 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c507.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC507 6744 bytes
SHA-256: 127b44c9f93874c96d25eb7ddc4688780d8877ce931cf296363fb5748d8d514b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5BD 3068 bytes
SHA-256: 73557fd4b9a2faa9f31fa694fff4ee7b49963c6428b4887cd33583d0d4a3c7ed
font_02_sfnt_off0000e082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE082 5420 bytes
SHA-256: b7dd2edca46d67624fc528f29b4458762219418707dd7d2ef7fdab6421ab2088
font_03_sfnt_off0000f2e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E2 9512 bytes
SHA-256: a44e11040254c816372460c390c007a06e6df92cac58a9ca72f9eb6604277159
font_04_sfnt_off00011213.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11213 12280 bytes
SHA-256: d4e41bd4812528e7d5068d3e121364ba5c0f104dcec1e801d0bb29d98af11caa
font_05_sfnt_off00013c23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C23 16196 bytes
SHA-256: 27d1a1a6a11430cda06fc10fe174d5fbc8ea4b7fba336b1622c8bc3b1a2e6c86