Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4f2dea565ca56a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-06-15 12:24:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 48896834f0fb259fdb404f452aea9aee SHA-1: 66f7e56d0cee156f0eaf184712112547c7271075 SHA-256: c4f2dea565ca56a5e5039dc02f1c7b5292c87bd756a14ee12c77ea1edf965bef
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 0.9998

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=hobbs+and+shaw+2019 PDF link annotation
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8738a7f3b---2001191644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079547081be9---gakugulamepekebane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aa205d230e7273017a3771eb3998405/nemupofike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940900877ce---62628933477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27420333025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/20794605986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainbowcaterers.in/userfiles/file/73748618075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805f083b9e2---6237146960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obu2an46idkfm7p1ihro0mscg6/60053191706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eb5937948a75948e5a19277d70186f6/10182646947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906604e6e08---rixudiwuxekorebasuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94a35a840dcb254779046fde66a85c06/76230358275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/60650742777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/lipukedifuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8da8eohkgl0pm2on1nc1r7jmiv/rorobabezugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/57247149880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/542f0cafa48181c60a8f2e18dadcc31a/76776905010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/408dd0b2efe585fa7334fbcc476ad700/1316959270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012ede.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EDE 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 5a9bc7ae73450404fc337bed8d0ff6da6d51ce4a16c349ccff91e5be10258d87
font_01_sfnt_off00014179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14179 12300 bytes
SHA-256: c8d87d8f676c416e981849c11b4350216cd15dba3ab5fb5f421ca1eb7c5eda41