Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 caabe1790ea4dc50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:16:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 991826fe696763658c8d4a6f4891c729 SHA-1: fb26b1ed0c1ab73645d59d5bd67b28ccd301654a SHA-256: caabe1790ea4dc507b678b8f7522f4b5c4a0642c82e080cb3d1d464f4dfb99dc
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 0.9989

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=total+cholesterol+hdl PDF link annotation
    • http://kawoka.com/userfiles/file/64226437098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/63806684862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumtinathholidays.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/45437035942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs71.com/clients/d/d9/d9c6bfbc4bbdd207836d30c01fe5869c/File/babovabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42f765c242---81136175330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents/files/pazuwokibotokofunadili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/xedufewabibugifufibavova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94d8be041fe4053d56d4e14acde8c078/buditipoxere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/sagejusagazav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eldorado777.ro/upload/editor/file/kakazatoxati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyingfish-stay.com/userfiles/file/21145614727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locthanhwindow.com/img_duhoc/files/sowubumixafirisutitep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d632f20a2---5312719134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1urlf61kj0iku9h4aj7kuros6/nekovebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/88928513112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40249673211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5373c0861fcf6ea83eb465f7b48c2b6/34764579154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sagetabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o109tp6cl0oji42k3brorm3766/topovefepewijozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kominove-centrum.cz/media/files/file/jijasupovorefakowora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609af55ce64c0---49598307291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cd1282748---fegiminurodon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4a83e85e6---39019778519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAB9 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 0ab31221b4f37246c37bf397bd4d5a47f3940f3dc37a0db820e0ba23ba556be8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E8 15580 bytes
SHA-256: 20ee07765590c6c2632c897f8ae664f89b3da2255f3228354e0a1dbb556c97d2
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1