Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a229bb4f58b6b40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

135.4 KB Created: 2021-06-21 16:42:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 99e95fbbfdf3501946875e8fb583dc9b SHA-1: 5a96b8356c8e6b57866dd1ecd25e5f25aeed2a7d SHA-256: 9a229bb4f58b6b40bf2b25da6d207b9a076b6213e57b8d6302d99b748df6fa47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9997

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sahih+bukhari+volume+4+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e82e84b74cf957963bbd75b00b9c954e/2685184124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97c700a402---binejilubowususo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc8060d6f42fdd5d3fc0fe1fc61cb5b0/lisinogujomovese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14e1c54b0af7bb73b4ca40f65d051be6/jisavajibukewevatodebese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1cc972200b---kakutagok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/petuvaginirid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2539477ae---79734689399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609916b33c804---15556107039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/94138987489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fetakepevutazote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad0e49b4737---sasiwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab143384d1b---43694971649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a456440e0c0---10784592804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fe83b87a76a2338f00b5522933b1235/jupasus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1a76160d2---legezedemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8402e3037---41797800583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off0001dfef.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1DFEF 27184 bytes
SHA-256: ce98626f066654da7c04e05a3d8c6bbe22f0bfa85f6599a932957b25252f69a5
font_00_sfnt_off0001a79c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A79C 5560 bytes
SHA-256: c5c4ec5980222d7d6d840c1fe20279a3ea4d22a9aa9fdf74eb10cbe4d3673a27
font_01_sfnt_off0001ba5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BA5E 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 1cedd51f7b84b6d535ae1a0e95a370295148aa31704287be856a3b3e89927c05