Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ab2ec2dc26da5c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:54:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 3f4e68eb2f6a4371dcdab9e0bd239dc7 SHA-1: ebfe21f35ab859e0aac81869ebc1b0dd1a39a76e SHA-256: 9ab2ec2dc26da5c2d5b53e79b1ca0361417655284b06904bb329166593d5c5dd
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 0.9977

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://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/62608421336.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/pageniwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b65b1db971718fd397bb4c31df0cca4/bururekiwofik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/vibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916cc563fbb---9403582875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettogherardi.eu/userfiles/files/83021424533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70316a68c35fd5379e9971496b981730/18932747578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreaslasnik.com/data/files/puxexeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29904202292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhsclassof63.com/clients/c/c8/c8cc7cee7579ddcd469b669c0eb172d8/File/xisuwalasunororejesufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sequoia60.com/clients/875776/File/42470955427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cad5f3d6e3d---wusumetolatudunumukije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/goxisaturepurefutozari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857d0c63773---xoxerunugezaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murderescape.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/644b7dec522518e11e6509a70274af2e/51258943952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itfkarnataka.com/cvsprojects/SSK/Source/2.0.0/images/files/27443055478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-video.ru/upload/files/dojonegamefegepoxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/415b0a310fe493ff5231dcf41154d957/4390293901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ff204f68a---26745175350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a3306f2d56---63710559370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/59131804686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/jezutosinikisabijanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210820093254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=holy+quran+download+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_off0000dadd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDADD 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 20df6552e31716ffee379ead4272790a87d37a900be1f78b8d1395e887b546c5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E0 18712 bytes
SHA-256: 33c114d5f28f4883fe9f7d120c180a57cdfb7eb1639f43d218e844a93c29d498
font_02_sfnt_off000123c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1