Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae50f12872c4f71b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-08-01 06:41:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: cfc898325b42514b1573daca4a1fd5cf SHA-1: 5f872f91e875d4fec85b275cdda62286fb6876a7 SHA-256: ae50f12872c4f71b096d60f20f0fe788fb45043381be7d6d588b84845c933198
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 0.9942

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3000+most+common+words+in+english+with+hindi+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://nguyenquangcomputer.com/upload/ck/files/jidefof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warungmimpishio2.com/contents//files/benigosogojedarogijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc348cf3a71---kotidukibupisujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/vebajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop//contents/34294107432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevinctekstil.com/resimler/files/wodulaxusamoneguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1v0048j55k3q79ij3p1hoimr3c/56121069054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/78968851604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9746a6372cd729117ff54c926970fb5b/30276888841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607059e05f4d9---97990713500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/tofulofigetenalovixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdalehorseboarding.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vafebikis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077dc33c2145---pesujoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evopizza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/babibelusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4d85798fb---soturaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/19368690462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nr7ptd413ubn2eoob3vhkbsuv3/89039791529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents//files/waxonasetezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents//files/votasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f90d4e04b8---17303742033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/movologutazuguvax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgef2l8spihgc6f2afot1nqqh8/kofotuwufidivosigizeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northphoenixmustangs66.com/clients/4/4b/4b49b54eec06ebba3741256e9f3e6f2b/File/12736096104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da3201b364---kuromatavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n7ca2la46ttgh13ntkb13ldh9m/sedofelepefukifuxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66qggiog924uoahhetvf882j32/10886754541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatnhapkhau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76763502597.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_off00010fa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA0 11100 bytes
SHA-256: ac1f86441bbf38d04ba3640a405d63bd8a00cf431a3e251839d321976298159d
font_01_sfnt_off00012923.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12923 16584 bytes
SHA-256: 96e11ab9ccdc6ac278151a49419e70f006e8e1e278f9507bb3b8723ea08f9f1b
font_02_sfnt_off00015422.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15422 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1