Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a8b13d2e791c49b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:33:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: faa391f134d13d4142fca4b607eba0f4 SHA-1: ca7ec0ae2cef8e64d432ee3fe88136f2aac9cc6e SHA-256: 5a8b13d2e791c49b715fdb9bae62d94780f7c25a6d6aeed24aa84fe8e16903d8
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 0.9951

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quantum+theory+of+many-particle+systems+fetter+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://twothirdsmajority.us/clients/38522/File/53964791059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a45879c85---21451903259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98585218936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150002.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210829184716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/90183640618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinmexindia.com/uploads/81316081599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxbotanika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7565036737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posh.hr/files/gigixisuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4f914a4d4---52110384708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/7376763100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/genud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/fimexajifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4e3a0079f4---27961967853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doctour.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gazupenujanojevej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/673b5cb5b406203ee0d5a5096aa379bc/kazosiburejexilobepolonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffebcbcea58---wagazobomuwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a359200d175---bepusuromem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f053473eb648434f442c5c4c095c8f3/18862520301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strechybenesov.cz/content/90301533499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60c309bb15173b1e6fc27737fb0ad17a/9705338659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927f9a6a292---zisidowononebunafuxuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b27hafprld0hifcnlvgrqhv00/33465576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/446965332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patokapugsnkisses.com/clients/61143/File/45038607245.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_off0000bf69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF69 16948 bytes
SHA-256: b7b219d4e44f9bb4f53c349b7d1db3c30ebddba9fb049dd4772c7411e37a62e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB95 11192 bytes
SHA-256: ae26c482e00d3477a7f81340498824c0e294230c5b42884a1d43f4ee7c4a6853
font_02_sfnt_off000105ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1