Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc67912153f114a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 08:46:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 40386dd7e6f3107701414ed1c65f77de SHA-1: f539a05493c81337436d6b54d764503a4987eba7 SHA-256: cc67912153f114a2e68fa064e0a472926d3986cf5709c4cd6a74e72745f5ece4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 0.9998

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://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/dumugowosavanuludubi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/68747392591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4b89ba4fa---95664540878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac39954e094---61170295956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7c57a8e33---sezegorureroxide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb32390b8b---jimel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed74d301c4---xakugenamudigozeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velocimapper.com//webfiles/file/99386516973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d97ac6d756bc240d1a208a2db71a486/11973795108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac04f82704bea029a33e07f2b74d76c9/vuxoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/61512039555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/65715022016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a011f4eecd9---2790083690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42b477fc5424b3d8abb4d15dcc66b1d7/8144428583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/zisekezigenemizanegap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/murukitukunevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/ralegobip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=jee+main+2020+physics+question+paperPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB6 5632 bytes
SHA-256: f5ceef93d27a3c7895b8bb38de41c9be774729b9be63a9f9140f69fee8004ba2
font_01_sfnt_off0000feba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBA 1936 bytes
SHA-256: a8ba320a0ac8a73a5a8cc2c47ba30bd151ec5f51af4d5ac0b9daf85eaa8f1301
font_02_sfnt_off000107ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107FF 11092 bytes
SHA-256: d59b55e59d371abbbd37ba44f9e8e8843ea2e8ea0d9c8e92e640b6fb90c0fdea