Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae18abfefe72688c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:04:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: c08f331a0c2bddc180d8f93e918ff47c SHA-1: 338236dcf49adf36f5e37e29cc9f37931d6287b5 SHA-256: ae18abfefe72688c24e6b6354572e0cf83dd6a922f51244f333438e5c68ac1eb
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 0.9978

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://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/83603483834.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/3289861339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29b26031f4---kokuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/wixefisupifojazutalibuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1f9babd206---18647307353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kokomo1986.com/clients/31029/File/69511357297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayxaydungthienlong.com/uploads/files/files/86197481167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffaa27d1dc91f826af449a6c4a3b49b8/28706800111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a23d2fef999---zeteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.com/files/files/41824963582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04ece0987cae9d2bef05bfd46e874902/maxijabemufukonebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62cd79a11ed681988d376a22ed435562/siwitupozewefobaliga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0a11f5d89d---tufumipokidakonixadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/5843624284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perrymanreunion.com/clients/f/f8/f8644f0eb9578147d5589f75b8c3e300/File/14510779649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607490b824c3e---rigisun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://combrooncom.com/contents//files/vatojinopeteradajenevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aac4b8b775c101e15aa1132a515f386e/64471191369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/noruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/24194192048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluiettgriffinwilliams.org/clients/2/2a/2accc941c041fffeac9751862bb8fe41/File/tegasesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsafar.ir/basefile/tsafarir/files/sowalebamiwiputuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepsima.biz/files/file/81351509294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092909e5003c---71706626144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=current+chairman+of+tata+groupPDF 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_off0000ea34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA34 18456 bytes
SHA-256: 57318aba3cab89a40f7c92dec33e50be743f39894d81e81d38aaf56984beca49
font_01_sfnt_off000119fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013211.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13211 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 71c7b420894e588df4ba7ceb150b3f8a25d26fd194e91d767791ff1cc9dfc910