Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdf1b5746af3dddc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-07-29 23:48:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 475e011103289184c3f610173c5a2b4a SHA-1: 1fb9e833f70a6109ac87f916869c642e2f9483b2 SHA-256: cdf1b5746af3dddc4456639a516f1af07ad8c48c3ffbf60b9f9f0feaec4c16a3
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 0.9989

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://nandeestationery.com/userfiles/files/bamomezerolilasuveg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/92319277854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae895eda9bd---bapaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgruppe.de/userfiles/file/36628054434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609425bc539b7---40719806004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/tavezolinonudiwufunefuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmen-bekleidung.at/userfiles/file/42806611825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/xuvalozuxiladadufaseral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba1ec497c5---jumezuruma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1a54351405---7538254437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210608_3996222F5EBF5D76.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ffa207c90aa274e1fdc85551bfbc70e/vexataxadaxole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1609a8c2ed79e8---dedejaguzajivodin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://museuminiaturesbesalu.com/files/safitapowegodaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiredriver.com/uploads/assets/files/62632600167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ff05be714---jufozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2593ec69ea091b7aa42f7c1be33b1b4/kuparosexevaperijatan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/21871383277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ef5278831dd9ecda091320e51689be4/89918175857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/javajawukowepopamasufagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/96800339793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700c7a0e036---23076615603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+the+new+version+of+instagramPDF 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_off000118cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118CC 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 54e0732ad48cb70488aa87f703330ede940194076a23b5a77c11978b7fd98655
font_01_sfnt_off00013166.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13166 18132 bytes
SHA-256: b03b7123599fd3e3c2c82eb0f0e95820de602676bdcfa25cb8577333c6b15c21
font_02_sfnt_off00016148.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16148 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1