Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c886fb045889ea38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:07:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 3407f7b94a12b93ca263d2463497df2f SHA-1: af822a46313d77c16966009b2e2cc4cac00f4f3a SHA-256: c886fb045889ea38dfda9b6c5f031ba293bab8d1db7e2a01f12e87796b784cd2
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 0.9935

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://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/37822845270.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce0e912762d5de05227a83e8a2c7b6b2/52109011449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcenterdk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/57396882254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/vunetiteseropikavopuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd797a2adaf---14103030476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/zivotomevivona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzirerealtors.com/uploads/dolawawajetewupigigojur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selidbe-beograd.info/files/44686364026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c797147e486---gunokugoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicklason.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rivigawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/tadodebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vatlieutaphu.com/upload/files/powiparonigadarali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd38126976---zizasewupebesuriziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944de6cc745---91235774535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/411b4lat13kclehgv4k9m26t07/xazaxizuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chubsorn.com/file/files/76585327403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/48642534923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d277ec25f68---zifufomiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8uej41n06923dvngldke6ub9bj/76069437885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morpheus-architects.com/file_media/file_image/file/31642616708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/16782188973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulabenveniste.com/UserFiles/file/dazisita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.asia/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/81130856290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=english+file+intermediate+student%27s+book+pdf+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c0c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0C9 11380 bytes
SHA-256: e4ffc76c7cb8dc4235a814f367b12435251dc1ebe78787bfdab06c551879f8c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000db02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB02 16180 bytes
SHA-256: c0217721a1102ad1f8a8ff5461faadb02f26a3634bfe128d67f68b25b112ee8f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A7 19388 bytes
SHA-256: eb7179802cd86dd0ce5a924054df01799f737863a5c876e4ba1bb49ef6be7de1
font_03_sfnt_off00012166.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12166 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1