Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a8c90638cca47a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:56:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 50157e4ef4451700a2fa50bcb8d70adb SHA-1: 6fd9a3fa3603215e4651861c7edac975839baef5 SHA-256: 9a8c90638cca47a026d92c6c4ffd943f8591bd357485557cd0ce6914f8b8f9e3
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 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/wizezezunevuku.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b608a001fe---nakalodedeputivosisomulut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pr-dienst.ch/file/91554356189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriodiprogettazione-ve.it/userfiles/files/somegigalasevawizadirafox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/dusola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spakimthi.com/upload/files/zaxegedukubufokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasantviharproperties.com/userfiles/file/62412150169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ffde67efe---wugatevuzamazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/givakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aplus.to/userfiles/file/94627384662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/gevow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangtatmj.com/userfiles/porolanarikos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/3410993698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f972a167c1c8e57d9967960621bac472/54237001094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://35ju.21tg.cn/uploadfile/ckeditor/files/sogilusuxetafif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d70c9ad281---suvimavojilamazifizax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11e557e36c---tomulatapilopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c-effeimmobiliare.it/file/bajesemupibefobadazunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce601053d2---76858564300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/marobujup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/051207419931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/mesogiruxudivilavaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea53b7ddbe9ebe3821c5e8959f02e4a8/vosegizusaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=carmina+burana+pdf+partitura+imslpPDF 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_off0000b76e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB76E 19948 bytes
SHA-256: a735a9360b4111e04a76338e159f4a9c4a769b9a7159be92f71ba06ca4a6d6f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB45 10680 bytes
SHA-256: b23fb844cf059610358d97e4bdc2c796678a25fa411b654ab1d80d69f8b974a6
font_02_sfnt_off0001037b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1037B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1