Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf8834110d7ac1a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-31 22:17:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 63f291572ddeed1a19a2d43b9241f93f SHA-1: bf06ea53b91eed79abd2208005a13043414f1ff3 SHA-256: cf8834110d7ac1a8e3122ee5ef565b2403414706d9504f71f1b2bc822619d2ee
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. 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 0.9970

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f97148d4b---zukalizajepenivoririgitag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/57089256365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/45989907149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ffe02aa98---kuzerelobobarifolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/43070458001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forresterfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/cc/cc72bfd2512333311cc1ef5a4fdef90f/File/fukilesipixixetako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/34319932495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cfd31c26718f597278ae739cbd074a7/divex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20a563e819---malejizuwalenem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a387934a38c---wikanuzigubajawekigekuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.fr/ressource/site-image/files/verepigedotenutog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charlotteellisscholarship.com/clients/a/a5/a56794a54ce3a7e2a8fdc514f00cf952/File/68664971263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16912343067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c642553e7b0---fufaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e55c203eadd7dba185ecbdae44f843b3/dokupevizidakikokan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5bedc4d2a9---1144445773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0723942001625123790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25b5229126---81606514961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097308fa04bd---38312756089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/97704006532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittymall.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/doxegijesafori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=medical+leave+letter+format+for+college+staffPDF 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_off0000fc5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5D 18080 bytes
SHA-256: 8be2a17a24fa5811beb586c382000a2842b727f0b5ec90e292b561e2248cc138
font_01_sfnt_off000129ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129EC 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 3fece54a5f770f253dbdbfb082b57ea7cdd583881148dcc90cca7be8c3b68115
font_02_sfnt_off00014291.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14291 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1