Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9597de7a764b5ef1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:52:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8c159e716983fb46d94053416f623024 SHA-1: 99700349004d6bd0e5d21bd1f097bd6232705d70 SHA-256: 9597de7a764b5ef1ae48f8ae9543cc94e975225205344102476edc0bd7fab2bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. This behavior is characteristic of phishing or malware distribution campaigns. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c754c567694---2993795777.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/55274038075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snabsz.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57948740095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danchrisjewelry.com/userfiles/file/fevaxagojujipikorefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9ee05a7c2---38807783438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609617fb9c222---66584198452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/94561987830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c491037ad9d3f8439c2c86b33ddf55ae/zarap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc0f34c8ac1---vasilawebadimavunamaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b08ff02658---pomiwobusamegepunobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f05aeb327---tilutururoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bean2beenefamilytree.com/clients/60578/File/26023460907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanandieuduong295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/97001364819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17629174d70eaf14ef50065ea91b0f23/63831776416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sammyuriasproperties.com/userfiles/files/89184450861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/rigurubofikivawumenutuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/piseror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltonjohnsonfamily.com/clients/870437/File/sizobojuseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o38f0cj55j9pcqhcph007qpmfd/52371338584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/70821820403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3a258be9a---fexatonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korsorlampang.net/user_img/files/23479778813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610689677e033---87528109263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=metabolic+engineering+of+plant+secondary+metabolism+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_off0000b91b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB91B 16672 bytes
SHA-256: bd4808b873c5c44cd8807eba87e4aa1f1fe53af6c4a3be499d503b0ea1513378
font_01_sfnt_off0000e394.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE394 11212 bytes
SHA-256: a7c8196bc119ea9260b534ec7ec495f32b5bf584ed5b25181e830ba7e61065a9
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1