Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7b141be23af334f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-21 23:28:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cc4d64a0b5648ca1121f86d2efaddac6 SHA-1: 282cf2baf1bbe223246bc370b4ae822a5516f9a6 SHA-256: c7b141be23af334faa0e7fa82bdb5e03622eef12061d490988126703a9254c00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of these link farms and the overall structure suggest an effort to direct users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://uss100.com/clients/5/56/562308f4da1da23328cfd9e5c9f3e68f/File/60429107561.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9907f7399585061dd3bfa1accf52a1c0/vodabifaxobibilotaxupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativenursery.net/home/creative/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36054879779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086df6ea47c2---nagisematifanalux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsublimation.net/uploadfile/files/67841269956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachtungcompany.com/upload/files/rejufejofotolagoguwegativ.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seritour.com/rsm/files/27762393093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surrattsville69.com/clients/8/81/8122276c22396d7fa0996010cc369f50/File/fofegobaremiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708ef4c4b9a---rajanuvuxizoxoxajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exlite.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giposasifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d65efc8cd32bbd15b0ac99cde6dfe1bd/likibowuxukapegabufunon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3072a6f77817b489e842787a420674c5/52310632167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b17d6a0af6---85003919337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ad1c3fac0---fametisemarefotug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084da2f44125---fufixupaginibexirujidiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoaiduc.com/uploads/files/jusarezatido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawrence-spruill.com/clients/42275/File/lisoxinuxabomikunez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089bec013deb---notijaxubuvapagunepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmriptek.org/codeIgniter-hmvc/userfiles/files/fokudoxilederot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellfoto.cz/pictures/files/18720543065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6a692f45b---52422611785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b3/b3ae52aef0329bb57e848b27182677c8/File/79653147466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d9fc20ceef696e9ad5cb471efe1453a/42365627669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25200397065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cpt+code+for+ct+guided+needle+biopsy+of+lumbar+spinePDF 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_off0000e97c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE97C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001018e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1018E 16640 bytes
SHA-256: c2d6bebc1f21a490e5397547dbf753087023879ffa6abf12df1ed2a799e2007a
font_02_sfnt_off00012cd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CD6 11348 bytes
SHA-256: ee2decf1a4f053f5bc553731f58373080484bd46132ac94aefee6381e601f0ff