Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c638cbab830c138c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:26:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b2611208b05443cb82d8a59b775f11fa SHA-1: c5db88c94490d3e8cf183078c9bd1e9cd5119995 SHA-256: c638cbab830c138c9cae13317858370772701932bba7e207410e86ad60e0fcfd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier returned a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, indicating an attempt to hide its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/gajasota.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5abe59aa7a20588977a1cdcf7cc99e13/99494334219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterjobintl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25005160836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87986898d6---vokejoligoxogefiwete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abctranslink.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35538606163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijestr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gexanaludavule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129f97524886---tugupanamebozixolow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339c7f3379f---dexibazipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/rexajamimomilebulore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.funes.gob.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bumifexaxufik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmar-e.de/userfiles/file/liledobibosapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gii2onu9knsfbopggbfh7bu9n8/pajixobexusanoluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee5d78ef81c---91359634188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chobacgiang.net/webroot/img/files/xawojowisovedoridogefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2b13f8d2b08b8e44491f25530a8b265/zipotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210813_188CD263D79BA372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabconstruction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruwebodevodegibafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechnews.cz/userfiles/files/54725055122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilanatofishing.com/home/sandbox/domains/shelter.sandbox.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tapesigugolevufevagova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taperagi.com/contents//files/87347329917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a66520180f3d1a69d0ba48f11e5e86dd/80539339427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/80700743268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/fatima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/87579808608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/velufegovopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=past+continuous+worksheets+freePDF 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_off0000d638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD638 10664 bytes
SHA-256: fe3ac5609fe52bcb2b6408c7dbce89776fab2f91d449d18cabf58448498caa37
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000106cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CC 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 6ed9bb3022958451b58028d7ba7245506468e7033b9448a65afce1563623c9ba