Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef290f655a5f26a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 01:22:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: fcb069b92b78734368bc94ec6cb32dda SHA-1: 5e8d46debffe938e7e959a5da9dff8081b0a0f46 SHA-256: ef290f655a5f26a94dfde91ae306ba73e833b89da5dd9c14b7f696d4e45a2f95
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-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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hr+interview+questions+and+answers+pdf+for+software+company PDF link annotation
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161266f40b2232---xawesononasokaxidotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrostroi-proekt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89455900486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c69f877c0---posobati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1hlajai63ggfvs64rne2ko6ug/kapes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shaplaconsulting.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84296015338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapporomn.com/userfiles/files/46733118222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16128e6a1d6874---14070917578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b56veo4nrq50ht2bh69o4tsk7k/xator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e91a8afecb7ce6ba1203a6c11a22aef/23823156187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8db101cb6e6e7e7291d71a592ac7eaf6/wetabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26f7670edac825a2c0986f47952967a4/78592948327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biharikft.hu/bihari-admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78288301070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863ff3371e9---83270334614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fishandcosolicitors.com/uploads/files/xelabufefuregapele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/522b01f3803672b18a61c232a6c69305/noragegixuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0c630bd5c---95343657726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eba8a9d6e9---84224290984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/72502485220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608ba9bb7533c---sezidaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ja3v1gh663dpbqai5jbrkcr1j2/jewakajotoxevagomotem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4de4f4575e30b6054b198cb36fd17c02/78834775506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ef257e31b---zefulekuzerolibeponigazag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4517632b2---moviwumigeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210622_175231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugasoxilejeriguger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d1be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1BE 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 7e8263ceeeb0ac80500c2d84fa25b519ad0b7c7950fa5190ff305620779ca9fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBED 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 3df456d8f1574d99bda9f447da808cd89d0670f7901a09b01eac3b6defb19a77
font_02_sfnt_off0001191d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1191D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1