Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9951135cc919b600…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-08-08 18:01:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4e48086d4c5947d703d207040794d330 SHA-1: 23b514bf6474eb80a266a4c2e508ee533d426ab7 SHA-256: 9951135cc919b6009c22c4a403b17d9a0efe83012782ec6a7b997da31c065971
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised CMS upload directories. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using these links for malicious purposes, likely to host or redirect to phishing pages or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9866

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://www.q-jin.ne.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vituzezifawovosutixav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://limobebe.com/userfiles/files/jazalalujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjcbl1672jj6uf2ge19oqi1iqq/76588452558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burragebrothers.org/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/kimesovomanofare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842d48142fb---832169379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160accf4fedd37---13446872409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1975geegees.com/clients/78603/File/93253554743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/userfiles/file/37252688914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandipmallick.com/fckimages/file/23554744989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cidrcflgjfrjjph3m3a2svhcid/35372084604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiokclassof65.com/clients/d/db/dbefc63a503cf3d3a4f9fb61678ecc08/File/zibiripatuwisolom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/files/72856947481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/ruzaxakamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7bc65ec0eda7cc9ee0dd6309dacef09/tenoxawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fkdopivupf95hifqg148j4u8nc/zefutunewegalokexifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syarmarka.ru/userfiles/files/69149035926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816d92cf578---39210757898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsp.by/userfiles/files/fajexexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i2i2tpvjt3f8g87gi33g0iu5og/negumumesezositutaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/36256210383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c24407e56e1---pugowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/55552630441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0996264580---65555026874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proia.bg/userfiles/file/diwoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljuboori.com/userfiles/files/boguzenomigenirenagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070370deb314---gizejapakob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/65472987092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=articles+worksheets+for+class+3PDF 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_off00010041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10041 17144 bytes
SHA-256: 2afc11b69d1157cbec7e93eae3da6274e082dd5d033f8aed8ebbafa19fa33160
font_01_sfnt_off00012ce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE1 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 8bf8f1cf1f37db04cdf134fe33504f69672f53ce2bc1af474093cbc507da24d6
font_02_sfnt_off00014597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14597 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1