Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96806af07a9e1fe1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:51:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: e635e3aa9bab24b91b714e284202e3f6 SHA-1: 9bab3985a03d64eff0a0fee37a122d0a0d5b482f SHA-256: 96806af07a9e1fe1959a33697b58dce709b9ab89a018943cc49aa2d497b803ca
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 0.9944

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=acetate+malonate+pathway+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://launensia.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xububexonotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/78612088641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszberles.hu/files/files/jekofimuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebookmarkcafe.com/uploads/files/15491768883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60514ceeeb---maxifikomomeroda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/72599026144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lixupeng.com/uploads/files/48679042389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/527559ab8d7873f192f47cf53c1e7523/2122866238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/zeguriwagasosididavoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macap.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/20872566663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5e73976f682a9a5bffb9c1874c01934/dodumagatorinoxigosoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdavloeren.be/userfiles/files/2750529472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0daea40067534a66fb2e25c160c456eb/6047719077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cytairtool.com/test/userfiles/file/20210618_8f8d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b25cf41b44ecddc02bb508c1810193d/62839861327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unityproductions.com/upload/files/12642568145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpn1971.org/clients/a/a2/a25689677492d603657f1241a2a69ea8/File/67846895533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07827f3abb885a15226d2789f418223a/xotenurupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/mipekasakatazusada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s7qa4aujqao9q9aguiml2070u0/guvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126c22ec9978---88526944106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/sezazisuvatata.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d98b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD98B 19280 bytes
SHA-256: 07b4b694baa95099e677e042225b85aee5345461f69cabe7ff26ce00c3d46d56
font_01_sfnt_off00010ba7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123BE 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 4d0a74123d1bf523fa0dd557fbcb6402796c176bb2d9d9ceba5ee747eee9f87a
font_03_sfnt_off00013c28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C28 1860 bytes
SHA-256: 562d39cc93351683f3420870a5578826c1285db13c691c08f99be18f4980e560