Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c44d42413f1d63b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:05:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8520ddd4a82f62472a2dd3c6ed77ae53 SHA-1: f3c517b6cddeb11dc5f7318a7207e6c4ac302988 SHA-256: c44d42413f1d63b5f23693aeea582c51a7919860771fff955a3515b9381d3029
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 0.9998

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+long+do+you+cook+a+smoked+turkey+leg PDF link annotation
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15860de89d---xodarazamuresatag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef9034e5ef---dobebavilaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c04e9733a5d---33274861504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakshimi-kaatsu.com/user_data/packages/default/imgfiles/xobeparafanowiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f33e4d2d41---81448794046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021070101014983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210728_C04BC440928B4BFF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7292d152ee984c70ada1f30e730e0241/80555408760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116a0ba2fcf1---33129582221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161218abed8e59---528678108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alajwakh.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/xopomegirobixuxefaseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/riroferizixek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--hh0b97d8is16e.com/userData/board/file/nadebelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3k4572rqh6ofqtbf8jem0ifogo/nawomedumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b202f2e95e7---41167166766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creaorganization.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/vokiriranedalivofetimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukwoodrecycling.com/userfiles/files/nekuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610328ee170d4---wajivero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionebriciole.it/public/file/koloxodaboketubebimud.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_off0000cce6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE6 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 0e60ad55312b2acfb574486301f1c305b083c5bc433f6954eb675b3752e61194
font_01_sfnt_off0000e658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE658 18220 bytes
SHA-256: 0198271eae0dca61ab62485a1d1197aa06c9ba4cb1febf41e28aa4c90c027a64
font_02_sfnt_off00011549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11549 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1