Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9713adafb6113e7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-15 10:38:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8fae0a61733e7602ba2dac23341959f3 SHA-1: 27cc55cb02637540c18fc14da7ca4bf17ffc9532 SHA-256: 9713adafb6113e7b52d3c7085095b51893d30ac89f2c5070407eaa553ccb58d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. This behaviour is characteristic of a link farm designed to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://losmarinoslanzarote.com/marinarubicon/admin/file/58896923563.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/tafire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/91480262146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/666rbllv1c6ncdlbftf5bie0l2/39788890403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/025b2958b12b3913ff5a0b1372fbace0/faxumizar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/47526998832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828fdd58197---pamososerizitubupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praward.tw/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f50ac870840cbd808a135a9830fe2e85/bevedopidemezorupogej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/83627840840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b23b9e4019db07f9e14bd20cddba8696/bikuvisenogata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/99495211726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b9e4a72bc---jitujupewivurukizenibisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb4ace66d4---42996050265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1e59b47ae---nozima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3ls49nci9jjgoisad783ev198/23137322162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d03ac5be3f8---xedol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1c9e91be1---49205497122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fff1fe8d2c---45943582588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/vuxifiwetizesavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9478d41885759bf9568de63725060fd2/sananezadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076be79abfe7---pikezetesasinopirixiluju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppies-4u.com/clients/e/e7/e7f09595da74c05d2059c741134300d2/File/fuxexusopajukadarotaverik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20e3678511---88501348345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=life+quotes+about+expectationsPDF 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_off0000e9c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C1 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 8d797b4e5eb88eb6e12c0c4ae68721900bc9e4c73c6a0d3be4f4dc4ba9477dee
font_01_sfnt_off00010281.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10281 16372 bytes
SHA-256: 52eb3c9eab0367d70a386f728fb6f9de2f7f91d9729fe9f712eb7990329935f5
font_02_sfnt_off00012cb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1