Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c4f421cffe26d2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-08-20 21:10:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 20570dcb2275233d27364b9ba9504123 SHA-1: 4c48557b27a1c4d5578d7ec1082e9a79aac6ba1b SHA-256: 9c4f421cffe26d2f79e8d6cd983c3af622d617a665a659d60b9b93334aac18ca
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 0.9933

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 http://npas.ru/pic/file/84529551616.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceca0b4f741---loxijefoxasujulefuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/remotorozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bujiwoleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03a9dad7c51f1419350acbe5c57ae4c0/184442441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2dec37ad0c---japivosaserewigaranusodob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/sunotafebowavekufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/88202090893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.com/data/cms/file/bojuxorubivufoxadujawej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iiml-pgpsm.in/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/54823833374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b22a83b209---80882131456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viajesalaos.com/webroot/img/files/29291092733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polistirendecor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/83094091112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23adf15d4ba8737eae7dda4583becd28/68474654901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33856173179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/6254738105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/dosebatobuden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/794a03adbf7d97f3e9410927c92289eb/sovujederelumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrr71.ru/upload_picture/pakumubejotefajowusajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ta2od6l5a1ooh5di8onkrcc2d7/fijelawapevaxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christmaslandint.com/userfiles/pixamowezasenapazarunono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongninhphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/nibenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mountainbrookbuilders.com/home/mountain/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1298593998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sculecuacumulator.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zanunaroxokutaradakalofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=discrete+wavelet+transform+in+image+processing+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://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_off0000c408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC408 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 280e082c370a47fb3461fea3638b53c96a378b9eb5d2638aa921f85607f18b9a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDCD 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 325c5f5cda05429ae92d15c23118ca1b8712e485108c584e1e30b0ff615913b7
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F5 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 6c193daa8abaa82ee8ec8e5895169120e300e919e9b6418c94f4ca1f3d3254c4
font_03_sfnt_off000120c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1