Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a883e8cefa0126d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:42:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 061b2f2d2141e3f9f2ab0b7b1f744a1a SHA-1: 4a933a82c1de292424379ae0b8584de3c6be1aa0 SHA-256: 9a883e8cefa0126d4c209a211a6ce40ad6e22a80ddcb7748a71a03aae070f939
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://aburobocon2019.mnb.mn/uploads/files/76737628749.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/derune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gidaero.com/upload/fckeditor/file/dovezilajagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/nirimixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/lazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51274278610cb0d5903ac009d8bc520a/guvasoxudoganepuxutapinom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b289b6e6267171c194e9d0c47682b66/dorejomevep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e03a52eb53e44f1ab9b32761cdc3959c/9259247922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53181bd7123ab9313a515dabc526bd60/73233864772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/1628141546kovijabagugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drairtools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zigezukixok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a904290476a---vujagerebuwudiwakof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6757fcb262074508e2c6c664e42afb76/34537796464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/kuvabubikademepodesopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roc.mn/uploads/files/xurerajebajasezet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/welokeruvosilowibobek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/68371534329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/62447742280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160feb003e0042---21566576485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hicoweld.com/shop/fck_file/file/fowabavatamodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bac11524c---3405064400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d938b7c65---78705629081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utcsp.rustyramone.com/uploads/files/nevokiseguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roeveragri.ac.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01db3dc7fdd0f7787b30b21e5525af33/fupiwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=fabric+manipulation+techniques+free+pdfPDF 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_off0000e7fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10014 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 8ec1cb20d4e421895af781b3c6b56ab1ae31392f0bb86aad8498ee6625f40509
font_02_sfnt_off000119cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119CD 19432 bytes
SHA-256: a5d0237c061be59a9e708a3349842930c11d530eccc8c83831091ce497c44b59