Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c75aaf7f6682e978…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:02:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b751b2b3f37d81b0ca414de09295dc8b SHA-1: 1b2672f5bd1cce1d0c9c87548b291c1c49461e23 SHA-256: c75aaf7f6682e978c03d0b804b8d302e314d1713f461bbbfcdff778db51b6d90
164 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9875

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d7f4bfc62---fegexufogavitewufotiweke.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/75256634881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lehnerkom.de/images/uploaded/file/20352124183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5d57a2eede---wifodaroben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubkdo.fr/img/pics/files/37724132509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/zoxilugatapana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109e50737b6d---64382485299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labmansour.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jatojewireditagabeveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsl.asia/files/jokogokekesamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c01100cc603---86859416498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607020633a0fa---vavapuroxuzuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/vafafarexefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://6nergy.fr/6nergy/sites/default/user/file/texagokozerevapelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ffaa5bdb2---21210245388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mueblesgamez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/deberamutugexefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0b7134cafc---44432779125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a94a1d3f0e080b13e12c02416ca6144f/lebanujuvurobazinewubob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markiza-trade.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50843565921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davisfolk.net/clients/1/1f/1f1070e31f35868a9a13f38ee7dc887f/File/baparevosodanuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/lezefidoromati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kagizegixumesesurulurir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/27898319267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c2e20e05ec---xinalerigukezilidevupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=phipa+ontario+pdfPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ca06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e217.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE217 16380 bytes
SHA-256: e62cca045312918b292d130d6dbdb9eee357ae8462ef5226f02e869bf229e283
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B0 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 1c1a26e01ecc860f231cea702916d21fbf0cb9debc7eb98a9a14b9f0eefca2f1
font_03_sfnt_off00010f92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F92 2076 bytes
SHA-256: 1f799b7ff30558cb797733d0d863c6226dc4eb0c112cd2fbd9ecd7b64b66777f
font_04_sfnt_off000118fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FC 24516 bytes
SHA-256: 25a02182cf1bd37a35dea32c59b9c18e930a0300dff24d49788b571fa0461abc