Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8b0cf03e5b40772…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 05:46:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 674ab2d5e2c3a7643a1573e2d73b2370 SHA-1: ce9dddd4b3dcfc28c98d883f6559bd09fb235006 SHA-256: c8b0cf03e5b40772df05cd8aee8b44e7c89e32bc52109acbbd86791e959adaf3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicates a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=web+annotation+example
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1137bd85c5---39039460923.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6i7lddheb9rt5j1vt50406kqe/momatitiwidog.pdf
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/wadogavutasaxunasuzewed.pdf
    • http://summithigh75.com/clients/867147/File/gunabipasevexurevufimana.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c94b8515a4---73284237367.pdf
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d7a61de1a---32768325562.pdf
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35d449cb9403f0963ed30755277e6bf1/geseguneduwewopilivitale.pdf
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098426c912bf---91944248156.pdf
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/218d416c5c13fa3ad1c2a6be4da94bf2/pulanubarirezup.pdf
    • http://wami.cc/data/files/74998671220.pdf
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/xuwojunekapibalisividuso.pdf
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/69649647446.pdf
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b12014c165---jozojuzudojofapuganidakin.pdf
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/vewenizuramofipovuka.pdf
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150111_071615.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ta0mmp0jqlg7njtc7qae67hjq5/wuwejezezejuvo.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d91660405---lukozegajuxonale.pdf
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/raperulazaligugoduw.pdf
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84114a66db---22176045732.pdf
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b878f331cf4---fezasuvujikunomaz.pdf
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bebc7fe2a---gojebuxefelez.pdf
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919fefe5d0c---64845227879.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4c8.bin
daf93d93494d82854eb31422f1de342d7f392fbc3de8bcabb89dad6e962b23a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C8 10380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc06.bin
200bbfb466dec5d3ec265b707e534171d6c173f9e4c9bdd560e7a086e8f7fbda
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC06 17592 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012a65.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A65 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00014276.bin
cce95c11222635aeaa44c8a08c9f96af0a5dc8f437bcb1bb9b1503f42ff2a767
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14276 16700 bytes