Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb43c893dc1bc81a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:28:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 416e56b3c910d560763a241b8492467d SHA-1: 37b481dc9ba04eb92967383cc752fd51beb32b54 SHA-256: cb43c893dc1bc81a3c821a1786f3298c088378a1c646e4eed72abd3c4e0f6f42
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 0.9951

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 http://ccmyungsung.net/userData/board/file/77432555835.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chinajessie.com/seadata/data/uploads/img/file/162831763234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nometaxejazolaxuxuxegosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-i-f.ru/userfiles/file/18087037137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92cfe152a0---zejikuruvuturonigejefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ng37k9tq0bdooif2ssnmf6nhmn/lidiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c4e7ab575---16372261411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgeonlaw.com/filespath/files/20210816233025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burrburroughsfamily.com/clients/55468/File/42892571205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4b1a6e707---74998322190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecilingirler.com/resimler/files/84164791918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cbc44a969d0f3500f0bf359b6a8cbb2/didibanilogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekalocal.com/Maeka/UserFiles/File/xojukufituzefobagiveziki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608228ca6d410---tebamedinefeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenicekentkaplicasi.com/userfiles/file/gozodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d6a836062---fokubumevefirafutolobul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f2ecf00e9---saxigegapalija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maffart-guy.com/userfiles/file/17706418310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a8fa8d29f---xeterapelebipitesugifimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jepid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunarent.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rofujozeguluvijeluzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104f9c54eaeb---tofuzumadonivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb40557de7---donisijevefuwuponodus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2118e74ca---35057305710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=hanbali+fiqh+books+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_off0000eb27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB27 17596 bytes
SHA-256: 7f50180b245c7d7968b52f5d33f4fec5b4667af45bc332e257bec8dbdb8f528e
font_01_sfnt_off00011873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11873 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001308a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1308A 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 30db4e79b0a1f651762b99b65a5df29fd9e2c74b1334fb259f5527b52ed110ec