Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c4daebfa0b7d577…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 04:48:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 90ea2410b4c8b9ef047d61ec4104dae5 SHA-1: 08d23f1be36526548ab5642fad660f58c02e8af8 SHA-256: 9c4daebfa0b7d5774a355afc82f47ef2eac3341731b3e7a821be5933dff0e27f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of a link farm suggests a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme.

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lenovo+l420+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/19555862010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7f88104f2d6831c9e9afe11aa850ec9/vitanenos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfdbe93dabd---lowolabosuxixudisilotiwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5q2tlbcnfbuulosbo3009g0qaf/488470446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de4c5e447f---lesatufumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d257a849d8ffacfe55e1a2dfbb0b35c2/84795126158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/2545663760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/gafadufasonorol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teresachild.com/upload/files/sopemonezidaposisiboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogologistics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sibukorekitowij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210617_202512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/57168920868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7fa2e3ab8---tajonefeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707c5b98b18---xurugumefelonutabojolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64dfc295f7537b6a5eb6b24c9a1e5224/97639041245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8af6dvtcqlga144754pon2vd7u/diwufilufavazisipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off0000dd4a.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xDD4A 14716 bytes
SHA-256: 4ff5cbab7b7ecb9246f1a8daad95d1bb7542d3aa9470565b1f23e6ab7da83400
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC9A 4920 bytes
SHA-256: 8b823dba5d4c15eba5e16af0bcda619795650f3f2139bb4e69cbb84b14342c6f
font_02_sfnt_off000106bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106BF 9728 bytes
SHA-256: cfff2bfac36533a683d4664ee0881a6f1dfcfc34161be20a489ba42927daaf46