Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bac6e9691d0ab67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-08-07 16:32:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 247fbaf2421fd58cd4c8af2bedd463e7 SHA-1: a115a58add971edc5f20828d8d5e253d060846eb SHA-256: 9bac6e9691d0ab677aa9106ad69885ac55c4e6d908f46f8f383baf66c1490801
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 0.9994

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://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fba730da7fb---25409147439.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f663d3b94---3825126343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49917433998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/revunamamutowek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/kozifegimefuwavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ddf66655d---roxivuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4eeaaa02476499a03a4eff5ba625a028/wusazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971285be546---81726028425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c81f111260---dotamimajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/16938721105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c45dd8c0b---62362161533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/sanegurom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87o6cff374jhvtss1olvga8242/52565311286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/26786389723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/74857300805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaker1960.com/clients/3/34/346d0055920ff30d27c63167e405b0e7/File/3512036426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d8abe6a84---juwolamemuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/73315719452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/703734fdf0erevp5hj2b0o434l/jolexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malifer.hu/upload/file/30342207590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepducphat.com/upload/files/razaposokituwevovudodijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/tofodakaketosunedadizuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=practice+questions+on+micrometer+screw+gaugePDF 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_off000116ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116CE 17544 bytes
SHA-256: 1fd8979b5741bf7200b267321c4873d92d806b54dbe409a290a0ee820cfb0260
font_01_sfnt_off000144da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144DA 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 0753e2f8c3c21644a01a2d8d21d00118e29e1bbaf412eff2b63899ce773d5f20
font_02_sfnt_off00015dba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DBA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1