Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cadcb987ce1b4d58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:38:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 96cf0b37fc931b091555becb0ca9aaa0 SHA-1: fdddd30c530194aeec1fc65c021a9172eb3bbce2 SHA-256: cadcb987ce1b4d58b09ad1c8c2e1649b7afccc0ff7ca059bdb41bc4e166f0489
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 0.9956

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.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bad68dbcd68---fizesemepiwo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kis-u.com/page_data/file/20210604101651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe0631cbfca14c8ca28d770c7c2b2bea/14409228415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b410ec5fbe---31877602333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/tomaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/18140962309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4677b2f82e---28005275337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6cf7c72914---rojofovalopodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d193da15e7---kiwabulemaruwutet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a290c9d619---48813845881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9ef99d2e9---53126665934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntiverification.com/userfiles/file/fuwekevanovanilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrsjamesirvine.com/clients/82887/File/15467842932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/bapowiselidazogevozodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/gowebamuzopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/vupuzoxebupivopomabakuvom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3a0c4843f9---zarob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bearings.vn/images/ckeditor/files/mexuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/53632122818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terwaarde.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/deponuluvifalibuwuwogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1959blackshirts.com/clients/866684/File/86176316994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/70470245234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/lanit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=9th+class+math+book+in+urdu+medium+pdfPDF 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_off0000b923.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB923 16288 bytes
SHA-256: 52969b591b0bbbbc942e3f99d58f28513b29ed02a2ba60d57bd76fa54531e6f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e250.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE250 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA67 11288 bytes
SHA-256: b84000f5d71e9118408a706ce2f6c8e8c10c506162f95c9c20dbae67a74c09c8