Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 986fa706496573fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:20:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: b40ec2c640a3b1fc36871cb3cf447fa8 SHA-1: da0624499cd3d2ff0a1f478a3e25316352c3f095 SHA-256: 986fa706496573fe985924b990e3af200c3bb34f55b08d6561bad90cfc0702ce
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 0.9917

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hyperlink+in+excel+to+pdf+document PDF link annotation
    • http://banlinhkienlaptop.com/userfiles/file/39597516158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18084016499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tutozamerenekawekimuxane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k2qbodpm3q5pte15ibq03cd52v/97898350930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isgsrl.it/images/file/67855237158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/lanusikubemosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/bevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geonatlife.es//ckfinder/userfiles/files/gudur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160accd97b5720---42052153194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afayl.com/userfiles/file/88866611665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e9a12f174---63597113041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/sesepeferosowitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a01d514b0d5---65927489399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/nazomadaragikuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hockeymro.ca/docs/file/xizupoxifap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/452120904e754448478233d3ee131ee0/wubaximoxesenirorutisafez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833c10c4532---25403695408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/pukavibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/sepatekiwabolifobejosifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/73508387303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/sabewudetefakadar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/899cd6a914499b0c486be0648ed05301/bimotomonajerusegawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb4ad01621---88742363709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/migurananevevudaxeduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082acd028725---62193849738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://air-separation-supplier.com/d/files/xedipojanawizefuxuf.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_off0000deea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEEA 17588 bytes
SHA-256: 93d29c3c18b03765af7bf2d8cff95a52c5b00d9c2f42f0944064549663d5f911
font_01_sfnt_off00010ce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE1 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 93bd57d1aa144f109ca00b8b0e5d34bf1bef3a036fcf13c9e5e3cb9ebe4e0181
font_02_sfnt_off000125df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1