Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c96185a2d0a959cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-08-02 22:58:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: e7380c83974096d1e132e9d113027818 SHA-1: 1ba0e93acb743761b306dde95de5c704d67feef1 SHA-256: c96185a2d0a959cb78fdfa99744f66f6666e2fb09e59c3f66c5b1327b561d864
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 0.9985

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 https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99p11jrem754k0ogh2uf7b03d9/54795183049.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/57217392294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb32c38c6b3---setowinakeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b453dee83---77273471288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd29988e3050484a498f8453c2ee7eb6/84586269810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afp92md209l69dcd11mk42bpso/77103270923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/kotapujotalerujeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/pevudorov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34751053319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/pibabuwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/tupojutug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe7b55a6200802d82fb0a23b3b81cbb5/vopopufepovuxawesenaxire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52253a97f5d2e8e38f290e2246e5ecc5/95872383207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alconburyreunion.com/clients/36523/File/16991896867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/72968756965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/81604389357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puppometalli.eu/file/lopitilijusizukonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/luvazisozesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797e40c5253---fofasaberagise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/142fbil81hn4nv1louudgpiq9m/36098003755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/49395782672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e9144797b37---jogisoruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+replace+battery+in+liftmaster+keypadPDF 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_off0000f335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF335 16032 bytes
SHA-256: f25c97ab671252046e76b8144ae15eb2e0763635d009a98f4e74ca0c5c6bfed0
font_01_sfnt_off00011ca5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA5 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 76cd8ef41fd8bb575ef28c72ca6427881d1f11c39bf9246fed2fc3b7add48b28
font_02_sfnt_off000136aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1