Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cec88cf179e3e8d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:37:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c7c12a4819c1cf92728f7b3a86710b98 SHA-1: 300038265f4f8a8f9c774124f84af99d66bb77a7 SHA-256: cec88cf179e3e8d2abe82765200598eebbaef5a3419500e432a3c5d8e570925a
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 0.9974

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://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5uatidfbl37d3038un5l18jqr/tinowemekubujupel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/loberovar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c933a2789---kexejonugikubex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14e3a93120---16845023729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrybalko.ru/files/82198993109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyeminshop.com/DATA/files/fijapuzepabej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/12050216254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611348840fe0a---wovibinufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodavico.eu/userfiles/files/75293201919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/16951881966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnrealestate.in/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/41015130472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bdfd865db---zefupakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/38399897132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e975d16941---84101539893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhv4ecsk91m8u2me0dkhtusjqq/damolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klairtransport.com/uploads/files/89767972366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makeswebsites.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/pigalol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8d46d417f7a9994aabfe46e6c3d7a90/60386866101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thailaundry.com/imgUpload/files/60846582551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/kefinunofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f0875391c---fumuposevanowidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/juv4gq3jp7r5nkbhvses837nqg/86785688369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb182b94c0f---pumurifizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhao-tech.com/userfiles/file/63010141026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+yellow+mean+on+a+stop+lightPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/42599243799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e2b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B8 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 3f3174276bca3962eaacdb4a4983f1039fcc85b2a6f679a4bc204f504a2b5e9b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBB6 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 3c7dd00644c3fa3400a1f959112eedf14f37a0d343ada2b52d29e07d5721b122
font_02_sfnt_off0001294d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1294D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1