Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 297cae38c6d3d871…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-08-26 14:13:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: bf176dedebe9d1b53a2b3ff39b8b7464 SHA-1: fe107b00e0dfa63a4c4f4e6b4170c81b01361751 SHA-256: 297cae38c6d3d871d8e526308fd3d2b66dc6ad093197aebb29f67554d4bf6143
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 0.9937

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://www.smartfutureexpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nugaxeniki.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/kifelav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d63d360bb4f94d1a76886c77638bd45/lozekamekizepokaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8d772942ede1979884681daa27f7a98/gukumodiwawewarut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2016.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/winiruxila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096207dc7e1a---fijuwujubekisudef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202106060549555723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netcsemege.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mozemotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordan.si/dokumenti/file/53821242710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03875afc1e93311ec3c64657b2baf090/neluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72face7a9c---11979002666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///20210728131514_98078831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/mamisadinulaxobebede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emblem4home.com/UserFiles/Member/File/98793128767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/46566458969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa621051c71---sezezenuxobabowola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/98112217958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160faba5078796---19215686141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frickcontrols.com/uploads/files/74550751344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a034f882ae3---33535497055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpdev.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fukitiwunepezitafopumuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/bozijasizebata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac08baa5d3---semerafuguritajevejizijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=isabella%27s+lullaby+piano+easyPDF link annotation
    • https://schema.org/InStockEasyIn 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010abf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ABF 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 569c91b1860c3f3cc6fe1c22cd5fc29749d4b8f7bcf0682df3c5699128c6b229
font_02_sfnt_off00012226.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12226 2772 bytes
SHA-256: a095bb9e63a2db7bf7b19e15e757da3067fb793bac9c66ba2fdf43b4f77aa78e
font_03_sfnt_off00012dfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DFB 18540 bytes
SHA-256: ad261b7b2b8701b75f71ea8e22dad527fbfc5b46502f86bb0af0e710d566dfd9