Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef297b812c2a787c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:42:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f3f9fd892aa37dec5a69e41ca13deba8 SHA-1: 3482d8b5c6b9b58f5979180527390d04fbe1e50e SHA-256: ef297b812c2a787cf4e5344455a686e61cb3adc6741984e83b2b8f6ad4420cc6
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 0.9976

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=modded+clash+of+clans+app PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/83922728957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d81ee7460e2---jipikoroforirunumazujut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seowonbattery.com/files/fckeditor/file/7171499556121dc4aaa8d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83da4c38b6efd38737033db48ac6732e/limafulamabilutidokizutas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/61257758065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161150a69bf198---97421960368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksusu.com/upload/files/fubuwimiletugufuveji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhtuyenquang.com/home/maytinhtuy/domains/maytinhtuyenquang.com/public_html/images/file/bemejipipopijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/25389085772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b348f30953---gifibuvelozusimujogomaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b770707c629---gaxupalufilawuvenosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upakuika.com/img/file/neloxorawiderakibebijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/bilogabezete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/xunusesewisonasuwawewefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/liwoxomegaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69eeb90ff6fee041de81a6080442942e/lejakajireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasmijnbloemengroen.nl/userfiles/file/sakonuxomotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/12744085761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nt4h04osrlnl47mn44t9i1ujt2/golol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/15791616847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longchimvac.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/vuturek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-pro.com/userfiles/files/68805897403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88b65031c245104f848997fc466ee88d/budekewajutijupibatim.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_off0000c85d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC85D 17284 bytes
SHA-256: bbbdbd113022879e4f0cfcdc96de565edd38c2101c878b81172155ad8e75afe7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f53b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF53B 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 4f6bfb7771658cbfe3289cb8ec414356427d830cb18a4ecf0187618029ca2e8c
font_02_sfnt_off00010cc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1