Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf2a1de008246b00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

138.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 15:54:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 868a7e7fdb4cc878aac1785cb4b08552 SHA-1: 126dcc165e7a427ae1fe2ce40312844785e85506 SHA-256: cf2a1de008246b00cdf4a4781cf5b60bfa6e41539b7c1230c564e88d219d32a4
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 0.9913

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://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07d154162ef70b8962af8720d9dae72c/2962435045.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stepsforstarlight.com/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/jutisifugazuketawalakek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/tibufutazikataxona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/revudutajazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapp.fr/medias/files/88058368713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/paxivuxukegolajusadog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f65891a23c---julajamovisiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210531085722134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editions-tlp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15440701382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090706773e5a---93320635763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henanshuangxin.com/d/files/25864787943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112acc455e12---zaxavonemoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twtipa.com/upfile/files/2021/07/08/93159877198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfvs6r2rcjqt6ibuc9q69mj0fi/dotezewapavotunepimolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12179434611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shaplaconsulting.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13675859508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/sasetixiwirozulapulito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/38527981317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b389d73414---79470167474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/63709629932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c2da57f6a---lidunugavikafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/puseguxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea54cc441c13326449f3922240bab54e/44555231817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/33465495376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=python+script+to+convert+docx+to+pdfPDF 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_off0001b430.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B430 20184 bytes
SHA-256: 374c0fc9820fa06be3dcde391208a16e5620f6c05806923eb9b977cb0d5f93d9
font_01_sfnt_off0001e96d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E96D 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 28cd39abd2044db44bc78a15d8e450c9751d813a06068e2fd4a8925bd7e8e394
font_02_sfnt_off00020251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20251 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1