Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1516af17ca6be66d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-30 09:26:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: ebf42288d2be4c5293e8e77483f035f9 SHA-1: b2227dc556f1de05a4816664fb48710e7285b990 SHA-256: 1516af17ca6be66d78bd9d2c2461732e063b38a88b2cdfd22e55c492f1b183fd
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 0.9991

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=south+african+cooking+recipes+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://quaint-house.com/images/blog//file/22230647617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akg21p8eppfmh19dbpj0qhr803/mezurawaloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff892773ef---vizakolajesiwovof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aac411c693---71373420352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohyundaidanang.com/uploads/image/files/30677127901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a7c1363f9---96362660617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc8384cb03---sodugigewixurafibiluda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/womoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021042910452010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.de/neu/userfiles/file/sagivujulubuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944c108731c---32452598507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/sepebutajomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/dukunawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netpost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/16203840913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfkanacon.org/data/userfiles/files/madadujopoxupularekogejol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/84391037150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5528b30a437a056c9a5163cd45be8d8f/16768755645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29574952096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latgalesamatnieki.lv/files/file/delinakajuvosatoxoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2313896ff6---notonoluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exporoaster.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/92914597799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f5929f6ce---40140377851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f3fca27cb---81142130758.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_off0000f599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF599 11252 bytes
SHA-256: c7ca567156695316626b4d95fb90191ce83daa73749b7eddca75840331f44894
font_01_sfnt_off00010fd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD0 16688 bytes
SHA-256: a88cea9cd4d262ffecec021ec1c232f2f0204651114306a77e885d06ee516561
font_02_sfnt_off00013acb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ACB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1