Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f24ddb6d6c6df7d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-04-29 11:04:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 814778acb5f95467edfd72e9ec9505be SHA-1: 38cdbd68dc9296b32d150d53dc96f2990edc2065 SHA-256: f24ddb6d6c6df7d4635556b6bfbd42232ee926a1bc9d0da2876534103dba2bd8
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 0.9998

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 http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b7c144d4c---39351886880.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d0be16f84---82017887118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2c6e0c805---56367753548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d41424eb2---56462193885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.doctor-carpet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao5426in9tjgmsvfv46utukjv1/zitoledubetoxepemanerul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27bttj66naat92i0of6s2a3l91/pirurepereba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcmcpropertyblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91fd6c47894ac096fa713aa7287c963e/96430721054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086dd2a483d1---removebap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b713d8ad14---jegokekarosibewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d295959642---mewiwupefuluzivojebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33lc4irnl9pn7seme9irdn01n1/75179199918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804b826c6c8---jaleviborerubirexojopuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6145833c43d27fc1e5c3ecb76bf2306f/52643162956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=carrom+board+game++for+pc+softonicPDF link annotation
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE06 5396 bytes
SHA-256: bf966bfdfa9b2c8cfd96bcf7b3b7adb7a731fb118a80e6ef71518a358538ff5c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e04c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE04C 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 1b73a723fad4b8662de1d2f6bc6c478765bb1a0f37114d3a4adfa105b11f306e
font_02_sfnt_off000103f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f