Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a9ecc536a5d33c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-06-11 22:52:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 5061812691acc167135f7cf8e5ebd8ab SHA-1: dcbb531571cf734f22a3557e148d297320b16294 SHA-256: 4a9ecc536a5d33c00814cc31e0c0a4c06f6a007e31604f94963fba74e3dfb118
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9996

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+legend+of+korra+1080p PDF link annotation
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f20fa9128135b92358c7ed7016a540c/93511553772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6adf8d970e04cb1a94c34a7240231a5/53616378166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608218ada8c1f---7239731565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f62afd799bf875992cfea311d16536af/53477303790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77ab54d62f---78918830257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northstarbaptisttyler.com/clients/a/a4/a4b4c2e389351fb2dee96c3f727c6a57/File/45089664866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bl616hllm0bukbe8hrnflb42g2/32347338920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53678cc8ed6939fbdd4bbfe261df3f1a/83322941824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773a0440a5e---rirerubosidowogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b67f9c6243---zupupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa28e9afda2f8f68576b817a309463a2/gilutakidelaguxukowosas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/768172761386978c1aab963f0754c434/48549832839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/zigipunavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094487c522a3---vorivifemewovetejexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/74342774921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45300768b6---20011311634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927d28eb53b---84123151803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/wusamamunaruwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be7b0a44f1---mutijodipeduzisig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f7e02770602d8d51191eda0f3cf113c/66754897233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010fc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC5 3212 bytes
SHA-256: 6b73578daef1490c1b2929d0444a811a164443739a69df5ca7509217de3ce98a
font_01_sfnt_off00011b43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B43 5528 bytes
SHA-256: 1b368c2e85757bb7066eddb2a6b6a8a8c5c2d381a66616e9a68b26d264bd3562
font_02_sfnt_off00012e02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E02 1704 bytes
SHA-256: 172930bac85bd3bd98a30b6a3451fa7d886b4850dc15fb1c8e56fbc00c23d766
font_03_sfnt_off00013684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13684 11676 bytes
SHA-256: 629b260d0f28fe1535979f9f620c8f0f5d455b2cfa6c5de31da9249d04b90b28