Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb76e701dbca9a03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:38:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: dc2904d96ec3e5c372aab2d736854f3a SHA-1: 706719533451472e61143cf3b04df9c813845056 SHA-256: cb76e701dbca9a033b947ed4b409c9b31cad0fe46f1350a87c703c8ef162e20d
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 0.9976

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 http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/97413105756.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607408ce8a717---dusavevabagavaxujodawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/71846801674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/15802905611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129b4739b767---rinesekolazebogawulodus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/67236567530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/58562457980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liubeauty.com/luutru/files/wuzulafawujarapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d35f631a0adebd260c87c7f0f4547be/29388930608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ob1rj41t36fugrfunoesv9jl2q/80463864726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/32572271295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc6250ac698---91462652729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suchanekstomatolog.pl/files/file/woreniveros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspoint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xutobenemaruzefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidramaco.com/files/files/jegutalevexomukutuwibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/800e80d9990d11d373b46e5c53970715/jomizenefujofufotok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/wobusozuridomesetumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf03808d80a---nobedenavujetule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff2383c5d3b---paribogosigejonejetow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tns-china.cn/editor_upload_image/file/18961137960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86eb7e95e054ee2fee933b1f6ef46acb/64586975862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herbexindia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sosagiwulaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a72ede6fc3---35055102786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=learning+express+police+officer+exam+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_off0000ca43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA43 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 9d20c6dd8a2123d49840ebe1c6aba37d07542ddb5b1eb9753d4e25da204658c5
font_01_sfnt_off0000e34a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34A 17520 bytes
SHA-256: fab8e05c685f5412df0681bc0b10ec68aee520b8c7747a2505e6bbb8a3b9d046
font_02_sfnt_off000110d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1