Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 caeb61ffdb7074a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-06-11 05:52:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: fa8267fb1a59c02ab3efa2269190df57 SHA-1: 035a99ad79555e562af86fda57db5fabd476580f SHA-256: caeb61ffdb7074a616f3ca86414452a18b8b3727c697d4490bf7b679452b202b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a visual download button further supports the malicious intent to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=save+kindle+as+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bnklqv7accblgmr2lns5a0m6i4/75736055509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b65cdeb5fd0826af4b93729a28acfad/dabanino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38d370439e---30963348786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf0631ee951---sifoxusukire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2u19nu77nffjq80uv21ran1tl0/bawatedodipibegafopoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37201439234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/773001368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b519e4918f0---zonadikivasubefalozefado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28c07c62f1---kozezamufabivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba7b5c053b---75943410094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e34c740a2f---misotogutejatimeviruraje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/401f23a53f1892e2ca0e4926f707d877/50080779068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qcoq3paer0sfbebl3evqku3ver/vujoxosugadunajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armandofalconi.net/userfiles/file/4641025589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a7231e0ed34cad59ff41dd4e54786b8/79272424222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/xogifati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/88120813422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA5F 5168 bytes
SHA-256: be197cb28acfef5f2b0df78b59cd2ae178ec2a04ca07af306a58c9b77229b390
font_01_sfnt_off00010c13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C13 11704 bytes
SHA-256: 76c27ce01a52b7fc532c9a48d9963997f19e36c8b69d856d0085c8853835b93c