Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9523968f9704b036…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:42:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 314b2ac258ebce69e3450602e82b0dca SHA-1: 46b75a574605629d9730ac2f7a514c18000bb225 SHA-256: 9523968f9704b03639cb9717793e4d8cdd9a3af9e807fb74cd9f5b8ac5149ec7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an urgency-based lure. 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 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c5f5181db---78547861140.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/78488472529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702befc70b3---80095188168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a054e1178ab---83975258491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25357842159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukaiart.com/userfiles/files/vununomokofivefokopuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://one9five.com/userfiles/files/puvutikegevemefemex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c7c6d1f5bc967d328f7fcd23d525726/rewigekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d86d69145672f250c9f879ef1406df4/fuwabezesijamutasomikeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bijverhoeven.nl/uploads/files/wakek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/63465904940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forepic.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/36482785339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents//files/39087100548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e438a46739b---97902948908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/51842940071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irish-setter-zucht.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84012377198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/53302948281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092581875d5e---tetewimerimovisexenano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5pqtg90hd8c89huh9lr9if0eg1/4749609187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status-go.net/gfx/userfiles/files/43737899908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me//files/50075261081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1966.com/clients/1/10/1054c114374c88b4a165e91103565d41/File/32862198507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/donuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/guvetikapumewinad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunapvietnam.thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/kefuzubutupevalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=successful+watercolour+painting+rowland+hilder+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_off0000ea99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA99 18108 bytes
SHA-256: e727c0730c7f07abd2136fead42021de19d15904658fa64a731f8a2de06e918f
font_01_sfnt_off0001195d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1195D 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 3ec26bc67754f165a44946adef7be9b50eee6c160d3dc8ac583af9c9882cc484
font_02_sfnt_off0001333b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1333B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1