Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0169aef9bebeb2f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.2 KB Created: 2021-07-13 19:45:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 782f4b2dc8f8f0630302c1259a94d542 SHA-1: 7800a80311ff31f40fabec0f74cec5c7f1932fa3 SHA-256: 0169aef9bebeb2f6f0ec4788feb423e11eb2aec362ebc4248a147512db095269
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 0.9928

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mcquarrie+physical+chemistry+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/58828911355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/1614874997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607184d7809ad---31536957432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5bf97e8ce7---64525031627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dglbl12flg73f1n91ee4bcfpr0/sufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aucordechasse.fr/vosImages/62534612116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/zoduluzebufeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ore88eo6i9i0ie9slv9fqrq02u/79679884099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.com/contents//files/tetapiluwofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/33706473850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staples1981.com/clients/b/ba/ba027a536d51c1d997ee76cae6dc9017/File/lerupexidideratosibowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--d1achljw0b.xn--p1ai/content/upload/takexapiwejaburigov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097b05eab548---kujepol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8af776d08a---dupogumiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiamberardino.it/userfiles/files/50093606464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62384192594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/vinal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a708ba6c100---zaximakumasonixarabilezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/28031670532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51e5aa06fb1a5fb27f4c498a61ddeb41/70586413839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles//files/35388197351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dee1c572bb---jidolilera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/masiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6318bee0254779474f07d576135180ee/8137299062.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_off00013772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13772 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014f84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F84 20604 bytes
SHA-256: 802c2b25106ddc26258aa7d9f5057aece5ac956cf79d993b783ac1b0e6de86d9
font_02_sfnt_off00018381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18381 11236 bytes
SHA-256: b9f03e5b38e6d9f77660276c681971fc5f7d127a730e1a2775744d946d77439a

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