Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfe9ab58ec344a7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-08-17 20:06:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: cfe4ba365069149605ddfc1ce2f5df79 SHA-1: 065df3f9a934e9bea3569feb032e6608f624d18a SHA-256: cfe9ab58ec344a7a655ab656ef40b0885fdc9a1a97774e4b7793e4df1362e0cf
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 0.9991

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://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/bazipifojaker.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ortechindustries.ca/ci/userfiles/files/63757485200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmsz.com/upfolder/e/files/20210815111459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/wodedojadove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catwalkdogcome.com/editor_upload_image/file/57439814901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/malotitixanakovawabag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/65906815268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/13813989904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed83009125---judufowujudalivekijolekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a336489b3b7---80061601832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e952bfd6e91f2c28a8275805cf05c13/texasadexumitanebuvakuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chochosanencino.com/uploads/files/gixok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f211bde4bce---6649465993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd08952d80---47304482066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmriptek.org/codeIgniter-hmvc/userfiles/files/pirex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e01bd24cae07f52b5887736df673a1f/bilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3b1f0c1ac1---77885857762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5de2a488c3---kazabapibadodakezixega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0033d20be19908f63aaaae57a12037a0/32533554468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/6867875314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://craftland.de/res/wysiwyg/file/xosanojifefapemibowuwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tevukasveza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lewuvibividutagazikugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37252613726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=mba+cet+2018+question+paper+with+solutionPDF 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_off0000d3a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A3 16816 bytes
SHA-256: 37477cd7ac12b12fd35beb8b5bbf795aa34a9dd8acceef365e6820e4d1d58d1d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF5B 11436 bytes
SHA-256: 94ca3d085d036602e250ccb56fd41acd69ae83aef94c4e72791a635ff476b2ce
font_02_sfnt_off00011a42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1