Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ceb4037ef7827a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:55:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 0b2ffdf11192d2cf13b4d418c330c0b4 SHA-1: 59a4635e4d6bfb4726731f65b7d7127a118ce55c SHA-256: 0ceb4037ef7827a90ed10c3b4868ae82eaf7d40001a7b58761d9fffcf55ff263
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 0.9981

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=calculus+book+pdf+for+iit+jee PDF link annotation
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b88bbfa5743363414f382b5fddc3f021/bolomitug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/rezevuvagewajasobetemapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609039ce41eaa---kupemepovixasisufanususe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/gepapizalurogiwuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ad56fd7fc861d4afae71ead83b6ebf4/95826198784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/vibugebopubefided.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071255f96e3a---40056612223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rjdo94qcmjra6tlnoupkrgabue/datuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbsga25vi73k3lmue0orb2fafu/lituvuranafujanumewowam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kotolantopeni.cz/files/supuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tindangnhadat.vn/upload/files/siruberazubibolexadafur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4b0e8b861---27432872039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aefde8a16fb---28373486456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compow.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11768175150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/69423221299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/du7dhqh0ep036ibk43jkcdtgjj/85596385146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec539d04856---linozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5702fdb6756d723359068bb326ee21b6/21929883601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cee9dd550---meginodibogawuxalike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/zovatazozanexuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zerling.eu/nico/images/files/lonosakuruwupeduxumebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721796ca4cd---69673776845.pdfIn 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://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_off0000dbc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC0 11000 bytes
SHA-256: a0f940965f5808b2a6a795fb61938161b503d334125d0e4e94bbddae9cc72f9f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f537.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF537 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 447cadebcae12eb17d0e88e97c365adfed64acf7ecce1ba3d24974bfaff7368d
font_02_sfnt_off000121e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1