Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1cf01923c7072fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:31:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 13e2304544d81600fc5355ac5a4df39c SHA-1: 4e57cbca62598053710284006685088b26e71f01 SHA-256: a1cf01923c7072fcadf5aae36ac696404ccf3accbec778a9c1a48bb59e0f6cc7
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-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 http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/16947179019.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/81957949917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carroll1975.com/clients/4/4e/4e2b018d07aaa5a30c3e4fca1c7a8df7/File/pamigilodamorazatavud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210707_124429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6c2d3d03d---45139823461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d7c4af299cac85a56fecda7cfe880eb/70213126312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/rumekowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reniuved.it/file/13951454667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efea368c28---47728995493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076976366e7c---63677181268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valstybestarnyba.com/upckfinder/files/69446470141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pillshop.ru/uimg/files/87695690523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df2c2568b2184e5d0cacdfd212ff1e78/gupiloxitemarunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/koperorujukibemem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7a76ab6b737c071b52ba56c3e4611e0/joreguvijeripusixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aadaa5e6f05---32004485168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ee6ce9eadbca1f06e86b6279c3e20e1/vemelademofazubos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baust.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44910765424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhorder.com/upload/files/pijetuvalokipikopuvuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ebd63904c9f8b8bb59d574aa1de4094/60562141810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e38c838458ffbc6999241c6cd52a2a68/nanusulawedurokusukidezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermanrooz.com/img/files/72054896214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilocom.net/webroot/img/files/54460231843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p2aginb70qrbo9te8kfg9g8igb/negowalevirupupelogevoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=rudolf+hoess+book+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://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_off0000d870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD870 19220 bytes
SHA-256: 367e392072a220afc943e6bd214babbe824267ccd834a2cdaa9ad330d5da8236
font_01_sfnt_off00010aa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AA6 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 6a0970f6d88765ff93805ce730216c0a3323816295bf0799e2c89fccea00e638
font_02_sfnt_off0001222f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1222F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1