Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cac8ab5222d0c871…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.4 KB Created: 2021-06-18 20:18:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 7bd97f8278fb203a94a744c4a7472759 SHA-1: dc378785f5e74121c6ccf4f977b73fd52350dbbd SHA-256: cac8ab5222d0c87109579c1871ab419f070f0191da51482d7c0fc3f3a88eedb8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9994

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://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7f5bthg1qmp7m6l1e8083higa/58513990572.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609839ca2abbe---68800105835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eae8f746b4---19083960988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/25361032219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mmalappeenranta.com/tiedostot/files/39652458471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b59ee51aed---guganepawuwomuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a882882f597---16577727401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e4888556b---9613204210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf633b18e9556788c661ebe09a132785/jilodazonerurekunomiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eed235b0a3---piguxijiwadinugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49a796dc98731452086c6a20d2c7fe94/79274151687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobosgrunt.ru/files/ckfinder/files/gubupenuvoturumak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de590a68184617f7d75be9e02da59b57/14378712715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9f521fdaf---62384469403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4d03b71cf4724329a13252aacb9913e/72919737882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.nu/upload/35252983438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ld6moutsugmadfad8ckvjo9ep4/2506346492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=install+startup+disk+creator+ubuntu+terminalPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010e6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E6E 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 0c489e7e43a95316c65e9a0441210be197ef4e7b0fdf99cddc0dea45c7ffb946
font_01_sfnt_off0001204c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204C 6176 bytes
SHA-256: 8bec0bd3180126b89f285d46204100ec18ef196bb58ad7c7ea605061e505c8dc
font_02_sfnt_off00012f39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F39 3952 bytes
SHA-256: 80b8168c06773693a9d4f3b0f6906dc2393df8c04329381c021ca6418720cbbe
font_03_sfnt_off00013cad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CAD 16888 bytes
SHA-256: 7debb754771a1d9010922ef3195f174430c75320b8adc46b8719ea01880dd41d
font_04_sfnt_off00017189.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17189 16800 bytes
SHA-256: 431e7032a77f22fe1dba844cdc39b4d74270ad9ff4eab5d95a2f94ee624ab583