Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c0aeb8cf00a5508…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-06-09 00:48:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2fe42395cf812915b1eb6cdcede9659f SHA-1: 393b24c48205918889e6b4f10f847c21e702834b SHA-256: 9c0aeb8cf00a55084ddaf21ef4585a83b30b6fa7a12aed8f69041e62a33bc3c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating it's part of a link farm designed for SEO poisoning, with URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=windows+10+may+2020+update+iso+file+download', suggest a lure related to software updates to trick users into downloading malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification further confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=windows+10+may+2020+update+iso+file+download PDF link annotation
    • http://bsl-trans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14330594372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccb2b394a6---guxixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077643e8dc20---22420031755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a26fbc091efe314a2464cbc1991b450/wumoved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ad856686b---48882961737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/681b3ffc200ef1a5cb34d531d8803dc2/20993544379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609634eea6abd---zedukepobulurab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be000f78b35c98c804d0e091e8d218da/lorexofekozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ea82d6286---5698083651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd09cae7d48---3976387401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/kakusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f8d8cf69f---28568759160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happy-travel089.com/CKEdit/upload/files/50452367402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845caaf0ee2---pajowujenek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77f125c6cd15aa574b5b72dba46ef612/difudumusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE549 5504 bytes
SHA-256: 2a4b19a7dcc2ca721e4931bf2437ea71a5a3f8331bb9397bb5ec039b06654a57
font_01_sfnt_off0000f811.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF811 11708 bytes
SHA-256: c6f463db2c4b8f73f7a96675903922eea6b6c1bd05705f5d3a1e77bb635aaf76
font_02_sfnt_off00011edc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176