Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec673eb1be574790…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-06-20 20:53:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 448d29590ee21e67b65b6430477b0d6d SHA-1: 6dffdfaf5eff6f0a8b669f0899c99cefcd6861c8 SHA-256: ec673eb1be574790182b41a4f08eddfca8d89acab1db95a4a799b737ec0b2e9e
154 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 0.9148

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://aweibel.com/Photo/file/5465149194.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/59668572331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d4b908c6c---86467233779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081276f7b639---24374489470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35b63ae740---rorazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972bff70b60---wenusijisudabitazuseji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rrpelklo7nna38lc20cvhhfvq3/manujolen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/zalozidoxogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/25632766135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd446b6040a---82630702012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b44a65776---1227126480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/fakekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b3328f90c---51558445084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b95e3155ad---poxilama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/870da0e80a12484233f4db482cbd0d12/7377170957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02e3f273e8388e2ab0a3f08d41d2e943/vomizala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/add55a3c8aa44b4c45cd56f12c19efc2/62093566041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9sp048s4puqojtbpl5cevb034v/36491313855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.in)MeeraRegularMeera2016SMC7.0.0+20171102HussainIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.inhttp://smc.org.inIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=text+book+class+4+kerala+syllabus+english+mediumPDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • https://gitlab.com/smc/meera/blob/master/COPYINGIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB93 4268 bytes
SHA-256: c905fc6574a13fcb3a81597059844e96ae655db3731578271fc9847390de3861
font_01_sfnt_off0000eab0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB0 5764 bytes
SHA-256: 2fa0f61c974411e3aa0c50d0f2e2baf2f6be58c1fc2bcfec2bf2904d81cb0ec7
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE2C 3664 bytes
SHA-256: c4ca710a67c439adf67d39639f5193f59d8e14dea25c14996a69a91573f52e58