Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afa4ae82c862b7f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 14:10:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: c9954982198b072a78b66a9299c43485 SHA-1: 9bdb15f4dcc8f1ad92ed7e11a78af7a41f0e3b6b SHA-256: afa4ae82c862b7f7b05daa944ac88e73166862f426267156bd96b6ebd4be82c8
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 0.9985

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ou+est+la+corbeille+sur+android PDF link annotation
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34571151466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neteyes.eu/editor_up/64524449658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-int.com/files/files/77070871791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcvperu.org/data/fcvperu/userfiles/file/60399118968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bompentax.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/80426743399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.info-service.com.tw/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45545582388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayou.tw/uploadpic/files/202109040346425602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomayaku.com/userfiles/file/44997989538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92461098568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/dotowuzefenesaxepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/dusozelizidole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybomnuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/mixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryanoomen.nl/uploadimages/files/54001397208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138bf16e8e35---35647329316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lideregitimpaketleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/77934530227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613476950cbcb---44319342642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uflo.edu.ar/ckfinder/archivos/documentos/runamivedufole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/93587289817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeshengtecphar.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210909013509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161377382499fb---kezenekejekesawanan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/64799782934.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_off0000cf36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF36 10628 bytes
SHA-256: f9a30593d2ca066e64250a3c87cd97864685f4c345599886d7b71d7e5ee15abc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7AD 20148 bytes
SHA-256: 7647553b5ccf609ac8c78f2789a4e1c189b950ea96d18fd77ed812970eb389ea
font_02_sfnt_off00011afd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1