Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9732fbfea0516cea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-10-09 15:30:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 7a68ab50f58398fd63fb7f8dc81301e2 SHA-1: ae3818d140e7e58a00bc05b3ab2345dab13c10cd SHA-256: 9732fbfea0516cea58820cba15948a1404032d83bca01ad1180cf36d9ae44ed8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an intent to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=formula+to+find+the+first+term+of+a+geometric+sequence PDF link annotation
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/98151625230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615db390d4b6d---47917223508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///rubuwexumof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0958745001633741194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f58fecfcb962f6015df04d89a553a250/menimesife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalnetworks.de/www.galabau-poscher.de/main/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lafezanesafirotugakukil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fa456b99e8---tabar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/wabuxobut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehrobrigheim.de/upload/files/34170158181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pokagojejesasimava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/20219403188079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opersan.com/file/wabijegozopedigevafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baocaosuhoatoc.com/luutru/files/99778863165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/wigalapugovodadibolun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buwodifivol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slabowidzacy.smprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84417151290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fc3dd46dd65eac87028007ca76656e7/87580954665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afmiletisim.afmiletisimajansi.info/resimler/files/sukolozixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenobiacultura.it/userfiles/file///21864211958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detskeihriska.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuvedobasimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/56590393016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocrangsuthammy.vn/upload/files/13349183741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-audio.vn/img-m-audio/files/48526133448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redemaisfarma.com/userfiles/file/58827610848.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_off0000ba87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA87 17524 bytes
SHA-256: 1521ecc0dbbf614ed042e21f82990e57a416ef1272896d7fa59d71d1f5e1c3c9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e76e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE76E 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 5429cbd3ace0b6c6348ea8cd5c46a86a8456a79dab23da60ec60f3dc7277ea40
font_02_sfnt_off000100bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1