Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 999c6d9087c27ec1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 16:03:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f67df9c4ad830626dd81d7b99ca35792 SHA-1: 10a842594c98de74d915f170d2db889ea2bde781 SHA-256: 999c6d9087c27ec15770981b2d5a8e972192122822979beb6afcae913ba1701f
164 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=operaciones+unitarias+en+ingenieria+quimica+mccabe+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://targhevaticane.it/userfiles/files/80468671024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empezo.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ritagutewuzolabiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzhrjd.com/images/uploadfile/files/90212886959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76215230886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tingchucontrol.com/Uploadfiles/files/61196396081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134cff46de6d---10219745993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoaidn.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51877656287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132116768856---leguzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/91316157665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emons-verlag.net/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/valanidakoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iranjobex.com/cache/fck_files/file/dinosutakiraporetawugeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137bef1bad9b---35038443283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/25041060966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mweb.cz/images/file/kufabatatatarubet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613882ef8dcee---45556307982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613345b7c181d---57914645536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e1369507f---95323009478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/68203644801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af46ca7d53---xuvelazikaforobudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontroll.hu/File/13527394951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/58818504486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkjv.com/Images/Media/files/munasisokegalerow.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_off00013073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13073 20620 bytes
SHA-256: e7988028eda03be7b5452543ef636a354da1503cafd9ac186a85c74135965d11
font_01_sfnt_off0001647b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1647B 11328 bytes
SHA-256: c2d856b67d9e3b0acbb790ecc239a7dfb63c1aded20935812bf1b1c83ba8df4a
font_02_sfnt_off00017e6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1