Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd2533615f01e9b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:09:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 7aa7161bf5771289535f06023661194d SHA-1: 98038f952441cc24bf408ce6a1fa9e4656dc58b5 SHA-256: fd2533615f01e9b9c9488a3ebc08f1e8f32d12f5d95be25fd8adbf05d1fe7202
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 0.9968

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 http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ffc023df8fa5cc5fe85f6f135dd51fb/68555001674.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5c2063aa2---jalixiniwukejowevozazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n21232cbr42t9h642a2htkd2o1/6695191162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9f29a2c14a---86600890274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educationexplosion.com/clients/a/aa/aae59ec6301d25964842a0067e0ae100/File/tebekomojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee73424712d6dcaa74dc0e529df6fc00/kapibupumufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altstudio.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/tobalivenexetebujamepogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940f97f0890---vikawaredosasaluzili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/61217255706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theleadershipworks.com/PO2/UPFILE/userfiles/files/mibegepurogen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qodo3q79t6hdpmjfd0rthg46k/ludogiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cecev.com/stockages/files/9028256967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implantsdentairesdesmoulins.com/upload/editor/file/69686251302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ece7ec5e7746a58dc0956ad0f83c622/71860816006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/41055138708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.vn/uploads/files/roxaxuximanizowab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/28395990159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dean-cpa.com/files/adminpic/file/43184263996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs76reunion.com/clients/e/e7/e717e6e8e39ea4daeda922698d41f3c9/File/58627472600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a8c0e488e75---19532662076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfectprojects.ro/userfiles/file/bizepasoliribizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/sasijexonuriten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f6ba672f9---95032258216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac076dac9ab---pilazugororenilosibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=elisabeth+elliot+let+me+be+a+woman+pdfPDF 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_off00010573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10573 19152 bytes
SHA-256: 63fbd359253dc13ab867d6cb16334762c63e607535d2a3c307e429ad0f2481e8
font_01_sfnt_off00013718.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13718 10872 bytes
SHA-256: a0bb37e51f393c9d040e5a0cbcee710a75a070c14ec35337853223203b543e86
font_02_sfnt_off00014fd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FD5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1