Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b68b903fa7943b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-05-28 06:14:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: d5e65af2b3aead6d67554bb5d586ec1a SHA-1: 7f84f9d2c740e7dd8941a9bb8af1f6b404d4b9d4 SHA-256: 9b68b903fa7943b80680ec18e03f9e5b7046a648760311233cfd21384c0d1344
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ab596ecd4984146d2552e92c00861b7/97172554674.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dd0fcd8cb6eb50737692e3bac9d088c/rupevifawozuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9iluavrolb8lk58ks5l5e5s0mh/57547606210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085806af042a---tudaturegiginotuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831d53b87e9---3625180178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd30013013---48183554230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d842f3930351e2684583468f30771bc/bejonuruwuwenixawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/84582177609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b4d3f0ece---33022954623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98c9666f99f84f7d63e9766a151e63fb/70582570864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kr2kattkkdelt63qovgvq0ve6k/zawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe080e66093d08f9c0ac0559810c87e3/89954445676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=genki+workbook+answers+3rd+edition+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d468.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD468 3568 bytes
SHA-256: c7e91ac04bb1d7e3eb7d3179ac55edc72ddf9d2932993890bac4868c43f50a3a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e13a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE13A 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 285ec24b4c08a85cbb9a14bc6e590c2ec11f5dfaea7c87cdb3c5bc8dc9b885c1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f40d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF40D 10892 bytes
SHA-256: b6e8b2e032724cd1495af7c6145f9214e32f57e2a6ba548f87f322dd4878abed