Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a8a4197562e59c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:30:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 7c7713e52eb5cdf0134cd96b5d1e33f8 SHA-1: 73bd91eae3e31f9ff6394b91057e063b30d7186f SHA-256: 9a8a4197562e59c8164f71e7c14f0d8f839a9baa9e952b3e6da625a2107269da
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 0.9961

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 http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/3844447749.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizungen.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/fogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f7c09a4941---tusarokeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdde3e3dae4318051528fb0e6977cae8/58387724615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-publishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fazijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611526666aa6b---pudikisamorijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1dbe792d5f---59442384240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/to1bmadnucji74cqjiqouem8b0/63581762786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c55b6b92022---lasojexajaxatetujekejap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/889c276ae50f8d63dbfcdbbd6d3817df/58843967778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angeladaniel.eu/uploads/files/49559390579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kqcme.yiaiwang.com.cn/upload/files/66538293265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdde77268d44e83e3ed2cd6bf466ede3/98257713509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107fd8d254ee---6538873280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/xorig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a0fb84b6513d4e243a6c94be9a27a02/46330344528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.net/images/userfiles/file/72762488699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desense.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/gosedaxede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/8149567582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/35848967238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c48609a543---2191173825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/mawano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/67867930462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/6104245518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarathi.live/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/sivubifebama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://executiviprinters.com/wp-conteIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=pantone+colour+scale+pdf+guidePDF 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_off000129e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129E3 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 00e93462c98cfd165d97f899d34b340e27232032f1edaad24442392e6f8102cb
font_01_sfnt_off00015707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15707 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016f1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F1E 10896 bytes
SHA-256: a4f245cdc1a5d304a7b8466b9bddbd6ffaa32b495fc5cfb1b0b66405a1e737f8