Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0baed4c7010f65c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-06-12 13:00:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: c0264b33afac72e720b7f5994540dfcb SHA-1: 69a39ee385bf475abc4cd2167dae7d825fef3e0f SHA-256: c0baed4c7010f65c879e3f74e63d8505b0faa71bf9a6b03b275a4d20727faa2b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comprehension+passage+for+class+6+with+mcq PDF link annotation
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d0b4cf6d801b1e7f63286fb76d1fadd/81020858877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ccc5738668---88962130116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904cb7705d0---karavununiren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/rikifonulokerugusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/kalisivejuliwitip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2898ab9297ad2977cd8dfe74f452dd7d/80363517001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ca77315ec---vinig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/293378a48288a11b36cb0c562cc46aa7/pibetazukiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c79561f98---xomebidom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0b6e43dc0---jujimaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fomewudobakutisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/10891322917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dc4ac5aeed088881d00e3ed22233a5a/dosanalaxederikafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/32194740116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA1 5612 bytes
SHA-256: 8022ea3c1a50ef47039effa2abb9a07743dac06b257c2daedda14c00373d5ceb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF9C 11624 bytes
SHA-256: 9aca8181c0ac4fe50df9894c2eb75175469eaadb41f8b84b08333f839a19b6f6
font_02_sfnt_off000126ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126CE 16060 bytes
SHA-256: d1a84ba8f0e4a827a048d387db8dd5dae3538f1c7e72415b16af587a9947cdc7
font_03_sfnt_off00013b66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B66 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e