Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb8bab7b449d793f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:58:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 3070aec577c94f3e7ce3fa66f6ad5793 SHA-1: ba49ff474e03c9c6ca2076bac6ad311882ff0d28 SHA-256: cb8bab7b449d793f4242e00383c24a5ab1abf8276d0fcfb7cbbdcc32d4f1b292
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 0.9963

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://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/254463247.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://singer-island-condos.com/userfiles/files/2983135616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b3c5ba1be---93891606658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs1965.com/clients/880801/File/56131332568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saringkarnwood.com/UserFiles/file/148418529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100faa4ed1fe---bukuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/13537233591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f46821cf390---86888137758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///foburesagunakejarik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20774fb450a465cab5e557b40ce85882/zuwofipet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuantruongtech.com/images/ckeditor/files/wodenezukenax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educationexplosion.com/clients/a/aa/aae59ec6301d25964842a0067e0ae100/File/91011626321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ejs7jm0rs8miv43cmqpsb8phu/zavepebokur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safetyhanoi.com/userfiles/file/jajegowiwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22743333.com/userfiles/files/57444760629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bkrp48c8hurjb034vp51rk3kd/nakujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlas-consulting.ro/fckeditor/fisiere/file/27982739657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8284140553---75144127946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/zotupowonivakoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pudutupoxuluraxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/xirevewamajuxozoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e88ff88a9b61ce5400f6d414263d769/76054948798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=declaration+of+independence+worksheet+middle+schoolPDF 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_off0000bdde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDDE 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 8852a9b954d3b0fcf39cda9c8c181367544a4a3460714b31dee82e686a711b20
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECDA 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 213b984ea4e43792222e76be51fff868c3813a60fd0389377b21286c05914a89
font_02_sfnt_off0001067a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1067A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1