Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f158a489c2409f3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

159.5 KB Created: 2021-06-07 22:28:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: a728cdd5b480303175da530eaa8c68cc SHA-1: f1a4468298b336ffa2f8a70536de5ed56a1a76a8 SHA-256: f158a489c2409f3e2a034afc4b9cd77d059ddad3ee1413920caf677ca0243c15
176 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 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=where+can+i+buy+the+book+of+enoch PDF link annotation
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e4bfc77f4---97666395448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/61037732715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca1e72b171---65945452756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7m9ke4u0l4lu96r04fe5hgv6v7/potevusopipomevipuzolod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/pamemiruta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5fc6947090---19626510003.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfecb94277---tosopenerar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095eec52d8a5---155803901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7368faeeb3aa7f3fd00e621668fa1604/17813734358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgpidn6ah76na8ip5jbfnlqhlb/91483252864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h8cm78783k72vgg0dgvlru69a3/vuxuvufutupijot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/xenesuwetakatutamux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e0351a677---62458355381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607decabea299---59506261018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9d53ae18d---wepizolamoboserinovobiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • 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

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00020f04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20F04 7340 bytes
SHA-256: c091c5ccf38778e7c5218ab283db08e62bba47e18558194af72eaddb643dcc92
font_01_sfnt_off0002215d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2215D 3088 bytes
SHA-256: 52f553099fccec7f19d7bd16ff3c9c4266cf29cd9c3a68a3a21d4351d3a887b4
font_02_sfnt_off00022c6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22C6F 5080 bytes
SHA-256: a65bb33bcf6dbbe335d7baeb153645966963fa129d56d0e6f1a3aeb58b3cd0c1
font_03_sfnt_off00023dd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23DD2 16408 bytes
SHA-256: dafd1b7bd53f86b1fd1f0656d799e4fb09b0220153c78806e97adbab92d8d289