Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cb63ad0708eb9a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-06-18 07:11:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: e394363a215fe0d49334e3f0ba87bc59 SHA-1: cae1aa82ab46a999c127670c6ab2c42b3db33123 SHA-256: 1cb63ad0708eb9a03556fbfb03fb8598b9e4f4d3ff4d28266f242ca4f3ea9c43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The PDF itself appears to be a link farm, leveraging compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0299b7127bd4bba3b269d94a3c6788c/94477498951.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/fetavujenipusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fb563e368a491427611c4d4288a70d0/65758817273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/bofutolobugolejonadetux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/41712574684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-st.nl/bestanden/files/jasosinetemewomadas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57t6bddl8lu15lk363quphdc5u/19986222566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dc9f9d2a09272c15e8e18bbe573e349/bovajiresojiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/wekagovesexoxenerulaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vita24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/46952849205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608469955dde0---zutuzatofixelumefedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2e092c27b8337bbd19c4d71110ea24e/44653412412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/11300321288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de1984d00dd7c92e14ee6e02fa8d0a1f/33383679344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078cd4e4c672---6129220786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2df6430ed5ab43f826d50344bf2b9a3/74239181826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=nuclei+class+12+notes+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE02 5204 bytes
SHA-256: 6d91664b623ef894e9c2bb639311cd4f2bf289b3f6dba9ddefd9257a89f5a6a7
font_01_sfnt_off0000efe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE2 11536 bytes
SHA-256: 48e28bfb85bcd56d23ad1cc5e691329e73ebed37118a08d358953fc98aaef18c