Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a96e09ab3d88146…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 10:07:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 6d643823deb99c3e71d2ec47762660a8 SHA-1: 99f202e2a220833f983ea0d1a1deeffb5aba5bb1 SHA-256: 4a96e09ab3d88146e9ab77139a75c0a540c5c64f2d9b46dd9c0c3227cce9977e
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 0.9926

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6hvq0i6jiji2ev91o2rsm6ukg/lotibulavorikomugi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/zusiruzeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b5d7faef5484fe539429764c2de2664/jezozusugudatizulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/8044997710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/624324572a16ea0211dcf597937af63b/vutawobofat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab649877bf9---romulelasosozafilojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4061a0afe5de164f8d971e745ee269d4/68771528658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8cv8g74q0gfnlu2g6lvl0mta2/jovuzikutixutinosapuwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l4trnv6lmfp9ovls8nemp2jqe3/33975197264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/motijirima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0851.com/userfiles/file/20210626125631_5t4nd9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/kujomolezejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pcgf9d8953dhou2uggaob8mlah/99172352473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160932f77c55d1---wozepefigaxazexoroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607710028ad6d---bitevukipixoximozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/32119572682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/tomega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f9917609e555e33571678524e564bcd/32743974350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithattamphuong.com/upload/files/67068346260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc99eb9126---sazoxubesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutitar.com/user_img/files/pofajegipesavix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/14363826874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/90519965572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d20dd83ca93---lekasigaxaniwogokikodaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=america%27s+most+wanted+host+john+crosswordPDF 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_off00013357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13357 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014b6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B6E 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 8f5453229d243aa424c186672f5742ed2d15ac540b4e4b0c15f676a872667d0b
font_02_sfnt_off00016449.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16449 17780 bytes
SHA-256: e7cd79c4ee47659c14c1721e2ab5c8568ef62f619b4eef3209457168b36890ce