Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ad23bfe8912a1cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-08-16 12:57:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 38d4d3c4858ced1cb3468dd401a6dd25 SHA-1: 8aa151f1172c86b03ff9778c9a2e28b24fdd6915 SHA-256: 9ad23bfe8912a1cf91608992d803f071ef90ceb5d03a42f0828f3ac1f2aebc18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. This technique is often used for SEO poisoning to drive traffic to malicious sites or to host phishing lures. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://darec.sk/files/files/lobajusikonuto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiorapizza.it/userfiles/files/36195079019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/74497062864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/maxoxipinupuwasaxiteloba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b453b0ac0b---37622474621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c1c0e108f3fc5771a28d692982cc6fd/31169873577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987861f1742---zebesufanulujazosojibur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/rokunuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isotech.si/uporabnik/file/16515638044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beulahcooleycollection.com/clients/870349/File/71240839853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608421f974f39---falilidex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabbleanddesign.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/46508504961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05a8a5a2cb---wapawufatazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/meguvibiramiwigodumifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/bejeketaxomoruladubiwosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4565f70dd5eeca9d98a77f223328af32/kagimoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silverk.ru/img/lib/file/83744596670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/dilikiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e10ad2436---xavejuwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/48688442138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/kunuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021080305184129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb868287ef6---10307531238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607240870525c---16888185805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiopros.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=welcome+2+workbook+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000ca5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE271 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 86f3b1f365ae6f96e3b74d73f45ec78cdcaf65838984215a4dacf373987de361
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5D 16668 bytes
SHA-256: e252c53fc5d821d48f3187f38a8bebf7665811094d7cb23055dd63cf4fc22e11