Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cde2fb71a95729fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-07-16 08:55:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: f1ba4fdfaa53b35ca1f9480f6630d5a0 SHA-1: 2a05d4f66961e74cee8910587a75d541cee6915e SHA-256: cde2fb71a95729fea397072de031920c050309f1ff4188b5590d99ac39e84e0f
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 0.9953

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://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94b6feade4---59900345967.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a511f349982---ziwaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/zomixivoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22743333.com/userfiles/files/32745413932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/36934916500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapneasytrafficschool.com/CheapNEasyTrafficSchool/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/97128703177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classykitchen.pl/web/uploads/files/29114740793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/45914782186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/90733126373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fonfe.com/uploads/files/tiririjanik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/28057195602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c015aa8f6be---99531448848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609914b467bab---5245789408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773c1bbf64d---sasodaxapupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiroyoung.com/data/files/menoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/javavubifatabawerune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53653de47a39e394991b251e57c1a145/39697072631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770e375eb79---dagibekamatipedugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fee6fbd20cd90f1ca3ba92430b67168/kesofasusegikitemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf125ec1e7e---dujuxabejimapedojujen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/36366427317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e775fde2a68---71654543487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icoachyou.biz/images/ckeditor/files/basexununolurigesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e9f216b14bad7f75fa8e615911e295a/xerewikipivolutuzolib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=the+american+tap+roomPDF 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_off0000d0ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0ED 10388 bytes
SHA-256: b17e3d4ae7a68f2a43788472e9c6e8a5bb634c0c2dd978628fdd8a5482935c71
font_01_sfnt_off0000e834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE834 17216 bytes
SHA-256: b440738318b71bffdb4b24bf5dfe16c81e76bfd419f28f49db228b0c4fb33278
font_02_sfnt_off00011584.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11584 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1