Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cadf82f94429bbf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:59:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fa9c7acce766ee15976b54389012672f SHA-1: cb1b7cf14a5838168ecfbf61bd144d9839eee4f3 SHA-256: cadf82f94429bbf6ab0154f6f8b87e15fe3e35c0127a0a550d4352f89dcffa9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of link farms hosted on disposable or compromised domains, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination. The presence of these link farms and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2002+ford+taurus+wagon+owners+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5589389795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afro-safari.com/upload/files/mevimojubemezedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaalu.com/luutru/files/bujetodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce24e1bdf791692843ecc02b0b6ccee3/wujajutamefuriweviza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/wonolinolileterukajudava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/14373051944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ee085cc82---kixonilidudoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avstralianature.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maroturizeguma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/93845226018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/17714187084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834ee813ed9---kasadosatevatuzirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c919beb028a---vaxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sindafaz.com.br/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87770067752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/65383337355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9ee586f68---16246300747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernitznigg.at/files/zijipazazelez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/34435935069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a03c62e3925---89150357610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurempat.com/contents/files/kenasisow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valifyrepapillon.com/clients/6/68/68e1c6a84db99a04c21676ff826d6e37/File/99348731282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62aae660fe29273de2fac747e7b7ae24/vijedewalofekij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adimhukuk.com/resimler/files/61239858039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/bamipubukozuwopere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f21424091a---jubifisejeximarip.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_off0000ec68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC68 10936 bytes
SHA-256: d47d32986dc503df749857660dee0d76491b0175aac7b363de89f8e93487b219
font_01_sfnt_off000105a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A5 17784 bytes
SHA-256: 551abed7af7c41cd24a6c33980be53239cd12d1d431aaa96fba8c6e207b9d573
font_02_sfnt_off000133b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1