Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fcae21048e0c277…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:33:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b6d06ea50eda2f8422e2115a21787501 SHA-1: bb932050ada29f2b5a8c1c099a9f31830cbf0c6c SHA-256: 0fcae21048e0c277e86f40e2f8aa4ed6b0cd08036041f5586adbcd48aa30d3a3
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 0.9952

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://carlojans.com/cms/file/70890863197.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://paddockj.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/fuxubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942e364130c---kipejadoludemidetarobaxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ff313bf74---11880314513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/2021429184552885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb31c8470d---12717250617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b913f61ab0---10343023043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117df0abe4d2---limedevugolugeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa13c0693d---75099039371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai-guesthouse-chiangmai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xeviwozowunikumezulefugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaibactrungnam.vn/upload/files/40875048470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopetrilli.it/userfiles/files/40596802593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/negiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjovhjdr1vlqn5m51r0dstr2te/kibamiwowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36234e7b2c5715c3b2eb3af947afe463/89983013996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haokunchem.cn/upload/files/nodivomitupatuworaguvoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umutisi.com/umut/upload/files/85977320851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamnitikamini.si/upload/files/85611570296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/65500983733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rekoxifasagigerewesikiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b822ea4d667---3854433138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c5263e98d---gisamapavidiruwexupezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnndt.com/Images_upload/files/libol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=lines+angles+and+triangles+worksheet+algebra+applications+with+anglesPDF 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_off0000ddba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDBA 18808 bytes
SHA-256: 8dd2b486b5bee4bc8358dce859c39d0cb69901918a9387bb2e09fe20369552a4
font_01_sfnt_off00010dff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DFF 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 2946e8ba75aa1d381450057154a74a024326aae193b9c446430e9091fe89fa64
font_02_sfnt_off00012755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12755 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1