Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cae840028dc267eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:35:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 4e63f7f2fafe41f281bb62486e555fdc SHA-1: 3cd8854b5ae8e7bbb430d2c576356141cd946ca8 SHA-256: cae840028dc267ebea975d9a508aad4c7c6f26c41cc0504fef24c940a800d6c6
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 0.9979

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77868523cbdc56dffd14c2b15bebfdd5/tozaduzamuzi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072dc1076933---puwotosekinofato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607427b2e3128---64346204630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/fanubokaweviridarazowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90196564715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edv-denk.com/userfiles/file/13153662496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbf0b8841522887101f676adb4a62667/laxodorujuror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9081872633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportcity.bg/webroot/img/content/files/56903733418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/17491570206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastwoodfamily.net/userimages/ruvefunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/9747900678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1aa23e07e6---zesepiwuwolovapemawupano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mclarenquartz.in/ci/userfiles/files/37637452384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161258adf7316a---runewivogodugoxonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/77929951638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072aee922c1c---mowuxivakako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/96108381105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20f83cd9bf3abbbe68ce5366cec7efe6/90174812417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10208872557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mckeoughfamilyreunion2021.com/clients/b/ba/baf9e6b347377fae0abe5a87436fc4cf/File/tipotimotodezexotogusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiss.at/upload_files/files/60563784040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e83540f7b2d71449d66d229ba3b8153/vasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=perfect+peace+whose+mindPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF881 17484 bytes
SHA-256: 12f218991495a8bfbd9e1772d3e84ab3d79aa3992ee60b4affff1f692d775b77
font_01_sfnt_off00011306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11306 17976 bytes
SHA-256: 0d1b04826162ebf4d21708c95cdebd24776e417cfbb26bf7b75041b0ee0da263
font_02_sfnt_off0001421e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1421E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00015a35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A35 10928 bytes
SHA-256: ba782a0b5c9b56bbaa70000d20b85ac65ca4da1014b25917c28fdd8e08222ffe