Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b42c1c8d4ec4fa7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 05:28:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 7f6c666188c9d535f3a9acb84b50b669 SHA-1: f4969aa40d505ddd83cbf4d6cf55536c0748925c SHA-256: 9b42c1c8d4ec4fa7a38664900db71e3e8b22e2567d070e3e5936fb9bcd260ea7
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 0.9950

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bear+face+copy+and+paste PDF link annotation
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/91464725734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pierrelemagicien.com/userfiles/file/motiwelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10557720879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/24972810159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137078592fb0---xukanubop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myatkinsonfamily.com/userimages/tigofotuxopova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/livetabek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c07a64c5b---vabitiwinobukonis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestofbeer.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3051269239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.singaporemedicalclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38970494772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamalight.net/business_school/uploads/file/38778840214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/09/06/file/20210906_042607_113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27362968668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apc-algercentre.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34514502006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sheilahancock.net/blogfck/file/kigukalesidozigaditu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalleasingny.com/admin/images/file/rutovozidezefude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/484dd75a776f315a0016586bbf48cb0e/41717965339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intrigantka.ru/images/userfiles/file/januzotolubabagonakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/wifimisesarezesibofapid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pemaboutiquehotel.com/assets/userfiles/files/52637921598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/09/07/8501284393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ainut.fi/userfiles/file/52186008167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adeptos.clevercloud.pt/images/items/files/5404041632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taipeitccia.org/CKEdit/upload/files/kabax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b6e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6E9 16856 bytes
SHA-256: 2635ddd76c3aa7b4c91bf8cadca6397ec056d2a98b4268d63a989990f2ce8899
font_01_sfnt_off0000e241.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE241 16100 bytes
SHA-256: 75b586f21231a4504bd8518f65a798e04f1d3736e1680262625002f5996a6364
font_02_sfnt_off0000f793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF793 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 616f4f6502d45cc4a3e80a9d189eaa4f692279e6624a4fa98d4a64a853e9e7d8
font_03_sfnt_off00011022.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11022 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1