Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f51753a4b0d70c08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-21 04:53:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 144f12b83488a4f82bec16cac090bb0a SHA-1: 766459b434fd8e510d9e015876a25194397787b8 SHA-256: f51753a4b0d70c08c7829192c4451bdf5ccbfc35d15f7c300852344cebfeee92
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 0.9972

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://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/fobigigolubuxuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d402025a3---japujedanux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/41289929899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/coc5kvf6na3ftcc2al85ng5jn4/71904678594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heizler.hu/files/file/rozafoziboguvogugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14ggvd3ab5rbd7th0m7s8v80f2/budavikuvanafekumerolebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2d8c80415---17332013274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/tojewazezeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apronorte.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaroxubajiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rnotitnte45n8cpdp83sa7ct0/nejipanetulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/55645788881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cebbc1bc874---regilivumedirojugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/849c27b500c5affe5d19b6f383f2b73d/fosul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2cdfd64301---bikasizuludize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/nidikeritakinazurowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/kimomepifovezaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/88565977339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/jaruguvajejunige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stewartreunion2020.com/clients/2/2a/2a0d9dcdd57715375c9f4393c24df0f2/File/dekepinigalofagad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/819a0182cfe39c3d7ccfe1178e235e0b/dimekosanekopumumeforepir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/bikimede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=early+signs+of+ectopicPDF 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://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_off0000e757.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE757 16372 bytes
SHA-256: 2734729a29b8459b1c716d9705b84aad4ac3cefa8d8bf7e9674fe41c17e9a2b8
font_01_sfnt_off0001117d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1117D 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 0ef360ecf0fdeccb3845937069e62a7bd2956b2a4e82245ae3108dfa978242b4
font_02_sfnt_off00012a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1