Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09de74813c237b85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

164.6 KB Created: 2021-06-23 05:26:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b69906a8dba4289a4b15145f7151350e SHA-1: 1aaa7b7e3d15196c1d92a033b19ced26bc44abd1 SHA-256: 09de74813c237b85af9ede26723f0d3b56f698290f88da0d726ece8779228571
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to PDFs hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, suggesting the primary purpose is to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/74787805115.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1snae1hp1epg3m8gcb0nfknil/gavalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d78086661f05f41ddb7b571fd047b5b2/kefamilesazanabimisefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/41258984501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15f7b3bdf2---95422903855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966ed796b4f---kosaponi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb79ea5fce---52851645406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73c10f265d---pasumijerogisumeralumidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2db676220---wetesigojujexexiburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5d55ce16fa---3149609711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8af3042b7---wulaziwilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/2515251403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8fe8adc90e---badomejodulixokevoja.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=the+science+and+engineering+of+materials+5th+editionPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00022504.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22504 5508 bytes
SHA-256: 95cd8cd037d42f0377e433fe74499355bde2579efc7ce855130ee4123d1b5756
font_01_sfnt_off00023793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23793 2472 bytes
SHA-256: 6a01bb734fbd705b483f1f2630a970774607ae44d5d237a4f0b447157e05835b
font_02_sfnt_off000241d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x241D2 12972 bytes
SHA-256: 2b960b0ab7e469652efe96c9e3c585a604b53436c12bc726f859afe63f51368e
font_03_sfnt_off00026e5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26E5A 16228 bytes
SHA-256: 6f6e26bb7e366a16b34f607a246beb5813d2708a09f0f3fed367a98be2ecd01c