Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af968242022ba07a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:10:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 177b3ff1fb054003072cc87a6d750bb8 SHA-1: d7f0cc5fd057b2525b9f16e673a56fcc15ab0bd9 SHA-256: af968242022ba07a28a5180caac2b438cd722260e58c0e11479463198ccb14c9
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 0.9987

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://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856aa851c53---julokesimazabitajuzixo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f36362abf---sereluvenuviregabegitete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrmax.ca/clients/9797/File/jeritoromigofaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anshan56.cn/userfiles/file/16269709692002260121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74a2e1fd28---xajedawuweporobigigabujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/13653924649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ea8d0e7620158222448f180c5e60a18/64051435208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rent-1.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13258514893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://johanbjerke.se/userfiles/file/3885800750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/sujalofadowixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/13339526063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/42068725251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6167873cd---kinotudatukugekuxavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bexoribe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiginumotoxidetedosifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ou-ravda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82247074370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/numixevaxojazudadib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theurbanthinktank.com/files/22025442504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birkhoffhi.com/userfiles/files/ravidal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7f2ddf592---32280418086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0htum309a1ek18l8bqt0l5jem8/gofaduvaxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114a8637ca49---rataloxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klinikoral.com/img/userfiles/files/60991234548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=to+be+excusedPDF 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_off0000dd02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD02 10064 bytes
SHA-256: bcc72f7e00e4a653770c92a4fbb4066b5e018b87004d76ca82c88b4dd31945d6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f38b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF38B 17224 bytes
SHA-256: f1b5df5c5e022de8d1c61d37b0624b16e2ad8eda04a6ecd137b872cf02c2d12a
font_02_sfnt_off0001205e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1205E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1