Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c40b1f99b11d2e0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:09:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1c043867712c721ddc25e7468a27c3a4 SHA-1: d462adeaaa374116261b9a3f84e2bfeb4ad5f540 SHA-256: c40b1f99b11d2e0d5a8437282c28fb8d526c4483f96ce87ea06e5cbf8d9e4ee6
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 0.9990

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://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fbfb7b43c5f6e492745f7efb20389b3/53043966057.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lungshingcentre.com/userfiles/93755699618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativecoms.net/userfiles/file/21864883340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/34171577373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinetalk.jp/app/webroot/img/fckfiles/file/rukonizopugoguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/94180782736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a721d0ab9---50620563387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lj-group.cn/upload/files/51906187192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/74479799240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioituigiay.net/uploads/files/papepasuzire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cab7448c8763696c1b2cb10a89bbf93/93134447556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surrattsville69.com/clients/8/81/8122276c22396d7fa0996010cc369f50/File/kewefavurow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0edb649cf04c5bdc7693fa21e0d8cb2a/40759370578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnobor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75381334921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/doluxiligunadufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rodnolespropertymanagement.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/faromemapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddrwc.net/clients/869849/File/xexavoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aloisiquadri.it/userfiles/files/66184875078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b44d5dc6bf13cb413ff8dff3b8248c4a/26919944716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5c3c2989a5fddec07555bfde27a5034/kasotaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skipjackpoke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45768698705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/kapofozajudiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4812d250f482b9276b408843c82d5402/21019996495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ebc670024---zijezusab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rv3r4f8l5vl7ndkel0mi12mkvr/finajubagubopozivigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=all+these+changes+nick+hakimPDF 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_off0000ec90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC90 10528 bytes
SHA-256: ee2ed52bccc0c7dd7b8b305dfd18cbdc840da7fdd28bae6769d02bf9ebb5223c
font_01_sfnt_off0001045e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1045E 19332 bytes
SHA-256: 3f5712729d7fca06b7481b83fc1c268d22b09db5b5b4015b175da82de2cb3311
font_02_sfnt_off000136fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1