Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c9baae7d5186c24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 12:27:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 1f43fb0a7f85945bd713ce7cbfc7d366 SHA-1: 9a4df7a1642695d229a15f5598d0dfe2c103f8dc SHA-256: 5c9baae7d5186c2464bb23038cd143be328fd9b563ab3f97ae6fdb18a98bdb0a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV. 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 suspicious score 0.4006

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://studyhalltracker.com/files/file/7164375843.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80ac8d99018032e71632484e62fb6e17/letolesopusunoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rqconsultores.com/userfiles/file/59564828981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/xizesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radissonhoteltraining.com/userfiles/file/14532657955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqrainternationalschool.org/_assets/files/bizirofejevegukamum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/99601273359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maytinhdalat.vn/images/uploads/files/nosawiparijej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b762b046e3f0d05972382f6f602fcfd/46810689844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krajinar.cz/soubory/files/54424384018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.net/contents/files/tumiwopodelixuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fornacedelia.it/userfiles/files/weruvixosidejaraduguku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370f14796f2---taxevojurezixisozukakejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/42090008841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettorobertafasola.eu/userfiles/files/xixomekewolaborevalab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkedua.com/contents/files/25999933648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionasset.net/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210903201503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161321f192208a---varinawuliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textmakareknutsson.se/upload/image/rerewelet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forssh.com/userfiles/file/kowugukitemujimidusokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandinavia-ex.com/images/blog/file/lakive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur3.com/contents/files/wufogiginumusereri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja.ua/userfiles/file/68876389094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velapower.com/glwh/UploadFile/file/2021090810183273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/bavewarepigix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7305478496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=douwe+draaisma+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000cf2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF2D 19204 bytes
SHA-256: 64051aaad6e3d06528098c586ed189081fbd409c1bf16a4346e56b5cf412d487
font_01_sfnt_off0001014e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1014E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011965.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11965 10596 bytes
SHA-256: fdf52dda3a343e999544d85dbea7da40127580e69a4046db097ee42e986f1789