Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee2d78aefe05336b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-06-19 22:09:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fbb3ef7aa636e38ac9d9ac6eafcdd05e SHA-1: 89d305aacf8303f163d52c02a339cf1c0491e6ba SHA-256: ee2d78aefe05336b4ba8441f74079ca64f616e52da1c8d8693da3e382008f08f
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 0.9115

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1fmoosv40puviv4vjcm7mgopu/maletexerigepituv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cd82f964cd536bfda53fe9bc59d189c/jewixafezufisewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/64972034606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/17356733858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecv20mijf51687907la27098dh/98931268677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.combangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/57055213297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nct-vn.com/userfiles/file/dugavugelobagenad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b5d672fbe---74779828190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0de5836a4---11352329834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31011635f0e7c4c0b93ac55f12ef7cb0/rizobaxivepulix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/rimokupimugojarumivibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzr-avocats.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55059525061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://starbox.fr/img/files/wipuvonegevuzuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/rigofod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygiftltd.com/userfiles/file/91643490948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f115cb70957f9b77163c3ab0853c6c11/68332996935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d685a1aaf---22447235411.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/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=computer+programming+languages+books+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f92d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92D 5472 bytes
SHA-256: 628ae7f497c27806c5d1a63fa3af3f01edcbecf3e87c5f11a69eca5c65a4f338
font_01_sfnt_off00010ba7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA7 11784 bytes
SHA-256: 4813fdad661027202ef31494d702daa12bb87f1d32e2726ad8d47ba0cc4d162c

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