Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8dd72a1a510f584…

MALICIOUS

PDF

164.9 KB Created: 2021-06-20 08:53:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 5500e84a281f06261a9d86287b2fe5a0 SHA-1: 4e8ecad80b558a770a6941e779ad525723806c1f SHA-256: f8dd72a1a510f584cb32616142e5c135345db86f8f88ca30eb7033f6274ddc04
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 0.9990

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ps5+launch+date+in+usa PDF link annotation
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e161055879---43907308310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/003749fce917d73d0107ff15f02c3d54/65037039493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbce5049ea540d55e4b1da41f40284a0/pawej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6c18d9017c---47834894653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1024860157---1302635153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64dd14d2ab903a1d39c0dff8529678c2/zofunuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/181e939403cd0704ff963e8b3e0d09c9/zogumijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763503569c1---2920628148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79045f6c850a7e61abb5db712950083a/bodilinosezabiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/vijadejemipewolojagukab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607421228731b---47006714335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/rapetoravilojukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fe5e26d51c7b8bfdd958141e09edaf0/diviwakagariwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/raj9qomqia2nr02ongt9cqh415/11914450081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/lekabejitoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/ribivabewejepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b26e21d553---1915739870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/69574507843.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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000204ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x204BA 14488 bytes
SHA-256: 2504301f77a247de8b8f5d5ceea3b2203be969d36ac9f93f7f228a7ba0220bb0
font_01_sfnt_off0002344e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2344E 5056 bytes
SHA-256: 6b83b300897ea7f50695a9e5a1b7abdb8d8af0568b632a224b1e33dc3a9de682
font_02_sfnt_off00024582.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24582 13100 bytes
SHA-256: 448738d74fa331ad8c63a58e985dcbd024e72ca69806666d8ddae80d778ddb7d
font_03_sfnt_off0002721b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2721B 16072 bytes
SHA-256: e8220701f4abc5c2578c6b81392a5eb74511f2628282971200dd586ef0f811f3