Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09bbf403dfc6b174…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-19 08:36:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 579721b44a055790fa913d7100aa5c5b SHA-1: e06bc617fbc3992a206fa205ad2655c8ca21abb2 SHA-256: 09bbf403dfc6b1746535adfddac153fedc1152d8b7baeba87948715a0ef4dbb9
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a security-bypass 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 0.9997

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
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/juzuri.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cphs1970.net/clients/877309/File/mutizibuzesadupuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffdfe68c2d---78512826702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/taloteluvifowubogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.com/E/file/mipatanavadadevedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spe5dn1isl3346juqfb9d1gtsa/53203367114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baodieptailor.com/uploads/2021-06-16/images/files/vunuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd9d432710---xamulafilujuvikusopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c08f2b1d08567d81829c5c465ce3d377/27750922876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/14611674374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08403dc01e7572f25e92f301b98a662f/bovaguja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/irvikt2p4ibf20s24b9fv797cv/xobat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jne16ddliov9a4tbuqmm2ke9q4/zosowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d591689a0d9795aee8f58181aa6d74d/23006111442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jd0sed55dpgq65sv9m09muecb5/4694154911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=destroy+windows+10+spying+fullPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000f1e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E0 5384 bytes
SHA-256: 75554431f3db7ef559dff62506c2b7e79a21a6606e966cec56de03d3fcce6322
font_01_sfnt_off0001046b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1046B 13964 bytes
SHA-256: c362549b1841e0901b90a8e6194ee583147b60e66f0da32b08c45120511098e7
font_02_sfnt_off00013170.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13170 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 8be333f9444346f31b4c3aba920dc347965b135dcdbad080a45925255275c351