Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca1ba61850df372a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-08 15:59:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: a965ebd6f2a40c97a486b88cc66b4742 SHA-1: 4da1ff138fec022491dd444892809be6b1839e1b SHA-256: ca1ba61850df372a8a9598a51d7ce0fae830060b322d6d83f5c064cb7af54700
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a QR-code lure. 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 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/89542611391.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alohatoypoodles.com/clients/1/11/1122824db0f83c9e74cf39311881f217/File/422947789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/97706408008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210605213650_mdvjjb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4et7cm12il1u09qble0ggv2gg6/nibizenofijufejonatibugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sujnqqsrmaerhp1qgvjemgfgnd/37219828009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f0c98cttnt1rkfefsk91ooog1/tofalijumov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/nitewinilitenegos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/47574692976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/duxokezaduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/84291719467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnobor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mixinuviwepalagod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893edb65dc4---ketegukodazinawaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607493ba80fee---jabobogosavawevutofemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/gisovewugunirobajalala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7f63ae2c0a203c6fd2b27cee1c2b933/22132641132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2990d74448700f2e9f93ad95f174bf1/76915600525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocariola.com/userfiles/files/29290863170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindspacepsytherapy.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210705104939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/37134755503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcf62dab077---vabejuzozunenago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69b4cc055b481f15c8c4b0c203583abe/10581734097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2b59be834beb2c7230af3c0728c73b9/xufexowipewuzanokizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=barcode+39+download+freePDF 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_off0000ed00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED00 17040 bytes
SHA-256: 4e9d5e9271677fbcf93c11dbe7bd078ec3d2b4c210dfb72ced3b0bbe2dc806a6
font_01_sfnt_off0001196f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1196F 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 22275882cd5779c001339fcc3b4c83f82b6bd254daaf9413a8b90030d00b9d89
font_02_sfnt_off000131db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1