Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfb7864e0ba8bc6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-16 15:24:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 9906897b00e54b5c3e954a9cc994e034 SHA-1: b226e29290c6ae3b5dd79a1da1c9a847edd2e9e7 SHA-256: cfb7864e0ba8bc6e5c30f3b6b72885aa1646efd997c3c27eed07a930359d4e77
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.6974

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=like+mike+full+movie+123movies PDF link annotation
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982e7c70146---5780704898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/47549531012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087425ecc0b1---10581835654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/zebulanexoxupesedibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/60809869894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/39798646363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/95853440581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masihpt1.com/contents//files/lukudexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/26683132661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5194uhf01o2vohjm1p94qhubp3/26426201803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/vobefawoxalegibigit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74573a947edde445d69ebcb6d2eaf016/74613368709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa1ba504a1b---dazevezusotesika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9f6ea11ec---50268438447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de18617f5229754f34af4b47560499d4/1387918762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000125c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125C3 3636 bytes
SHA-256: d7e6a852eb60440091c36591de32b425b395df907af164127e15b0d9d409f9d5
font_01_sfnt_off000132c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132C6 5020 bytes
SHA-256: b042b774bf55bb0340cd33f9a82d6acb25fb29de942e002f7c903352844a744e

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