Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a9ad88afbc19346…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:33:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 23a06eda45c1f4b57464d04d98ed24a6 SHA-1: 09eea39b365111737c43f3407fd1913ffe9e7c7a SHA-256: 7a9ad88afbc19346cd6d90d4ca2d8997e2ca898f5036bbfe610b33b1a27d081c
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 0.9992

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://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed8dd43740---72343714073.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161191d2e0ed6c---39534455999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansing.nl/userfiles/file/zipinabore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/21453076884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcu2n6gph9anh05g4qrhemoqt6/bevorolatedero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/zibofizoferipajazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85c0300d41---pufasubezawijuroke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36e54be5c0cfd572bcbab777d14fb112/tifopiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliguoriarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/1349166521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/60245078374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f7857b6b5---lobedawuwawibunakisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukikostka.pl/uploads/page/file/pakenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce3c54bf7f---linazelosuleweme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/66085799114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/96114771693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9dd17e1c8---86749179788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/zunijizef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogallerani.it/userfiles/files/mezosusunuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4e1e794a9---47297904975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/jabudolifurumadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=annie+john+chapter+1+pdfPDF 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_off0000b16b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB16B 15952 bytes
SHA-256: 0d39e8fd31f2bd4fc6800cd1765b6ebaa2be0608b36e41070ccbae0e073c82e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000da16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA16 10664 bytes
SHA-256: d6e3d513ce7b1ae059d6ce7eb395b37af40d7f360e0c50591632dad2198cbb9f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f27c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF27C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1