Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cdf40ae352f6796…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:17:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bd5baa0d84040f7d0fabcd0d4a708437 SHA-1: 98a1150245c52b790f0cbe6e6bba468606c7ffbb SHA-256: 5cdf40ae352f67964a07f8d08fbddce0ce9dd2e65b884f2cc6b8df9ad8f7f93d
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 0.9974

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 http://snsi.jp/image/news_file/27489565917.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/tugawawudejajowepigonow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimatyzacjaradom.pl/userfiles/file/40023360033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a2e60dea19---derodumokobamimufam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/phh9ao8qkjtl6np632b7e96lnm/18480950053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ladakifixidujafelajor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b665e38be7---ladokevuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611cc382d7b44---18692049617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d651112e3---83545969798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607856bb7e5f4---95677696752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/16937157797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.info/fckeditor/userfiles/file/65815046545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079304a272e8---lanaroduremi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53ibavabqp0v7ff9utehplqgkc/19078423080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73347fd95c301ffa87d59e1e50a36ed1/buwixisorefejasenugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instant-image.net/UserFiles/Site/File/zebasuseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/12314517629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiemtoandongnghi.com/public/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37777118349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.com/userfiles/files/56049904307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c50600ba0---rujezapopedupijobakezadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/zepejegabugoliwetideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/84503839075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d0a077c3b---13938790042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://washlounge.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gejifagerobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=sym+joyride+manualPDF 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_off0000e458.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE458 17488 bytes
SHA-256: 095665a81326573f14ecec9215f8a10d42c8b5cdcc0fc74b9f8e4e4b9fa7cebc
font_01_sfnt_off000111f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F4 10560 bytes
SHA-256: a198b2b5426b3bc8efcd481940bc9256ec211a6875ed1879e738acf1268145a8
font_02_sfnt_off000129f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1