Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 273c9cf05d90dbc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-08-30 23:10:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: c277cc860308e620c6c776eec13814e3 SHA-1: 11dcc1b342a7fea77c0dea8d9970253f42d2f580 SHA-256: 273c9cf05d90dbc290dec99d9166fa85153c4f538f85e21257cb4e85c616a5e4
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 0.9989

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=which+direction+is+wind+blowing PDF link annotation
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac64f4e1e74---5014438686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa012d78a8359de034c03439610b4fc4/85855785312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161121b83496fb---domuwedowizuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/1464141448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f046ed2289cfb9609807f8f602190ba1/4259364609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/402b744d9e4169d6d9239b1e31d80c8b/xikepebutopuros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akifkasaboglu.com/esatfisek/images_upload/files/lamevubanefuxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/65346685829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goforthegreengolfpools.com/userfiles/file/birutikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/tixegamorurajozudorun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/winob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/15185179603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100aa6d0f4e7---30744972746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9e65582910---65787166197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//85890570222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funke.be/data/file/fivalujexorinak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8952576cfb---31886670549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metall-press.ru/files/nineje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade42660598---46489912744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurenhanger.nl/userfiles/file/ravekinere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eszixv.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuvitowinizulezamowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ximatinhdongnai.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/wabusupijaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210703_7DC20C28BBE734B1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085dda6ef87e---14789297373.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_off0000d3c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C7 10704 bytes
SHA-256: b8ae9c0f5ac0a0a55c09717c5e1b7fc0191edc4525a1ed45a1f418e8932ddc09
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1E 18104 bytes
SHA-256: c3720bcc584ef739af53afb065a4546bbb227ecada5215213defd48638e0ce01
font_02_sfnt_off00011b30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B30 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1