Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9444f16d3e9c3573…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:16:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 8bf20ba57ae8c2c7335ccf6142ef0e77 SHA-1: e1482bc84a274a730588ed439d57b056cbf1d5f5 SHA-256: 9444f16d3e9c3573daff7b2b3be88bb32cf62561b5d42f913d5821b9d257b357
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 0.9968

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=singular+to+plural+irregular+nouns+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/817005665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/gujebeforurugosinevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0276d8e43da39aaddf9252c8dbfedbc4/1892666942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beliangka.com/contents//files/nizubofokamodamaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a910f4c8c32---63077153348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44lq2ubbm775ltjmooc4t27g60/66586483991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baove247.org/upload/files/88587837872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6df994cda7---gagusekidus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913966d68c3---kegudagawuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30514ec1e2418176325fbddd089c0075/gixudikipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855fa52994c---51983990737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouaujlupkq6irkph70lkcmrijn/21626709070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xukaxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804a8da738e---sewepoxawuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b02eb6efe---15617672716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dizunafisarezoruzuxekov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/65423011042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0805d20d106b5d9431133f24a2433b7f/60397161931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inezorviskids.com/clients/37546/File/dimavasewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportyou.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wobidabuniferisulojezime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f531ae2955---45567964878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0in86sslj7ohc3ofag3ugilasg/92236909433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329863dc97c---88123393074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfjj0s9c6ocsthkj1gnr1sru7c/44587123390.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_off000107e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E5 19136 bytes
SHA-256: b9a5c00026ce562e830dab61a635a9f07ca62465251669cddb4ffd98eb6762e9
font_01_sfnt_off000139ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139AE 10884 bytes
SHA-256: f59afada4c355055ab68808d35e9d94453777fe039a6f1cf73d8dc3c407f1405
font_02_sfnt_off000152de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1