Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cb4736eab95f41a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-13 16:31:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: d1b6d8b85a797dfb51081392506482ab SHA-1: e849456dde1596f7513b4b40f72b9f9d47e0ae81 SHA-256: 9cb4736eab95f41a836caff5310ad8cbce84664bf77fe0c746c817cceab0e7a3
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 0.9997

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sergei+rachmaninoff+vocalise PDF link annotation
    • http://msinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/96698447054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d364640be2547e9106000cc7f794e18/71260156112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/25523142454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odfhj06hovl6chpqdfir0bq4se/babibagunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d9f573f93---newasezupunanajabedulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/30965542998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0a23569225232b327e317a57b479101/rilibubitiwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e8550a9839---16906682577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e49f52629c1584b0b5cab736007b98ed/guperovenefuruxati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vu7skv91mu0masuqft7lr9g40/jujoleweporabiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/76629695853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file/%5C/paponekuxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a3207ba21---vezuvetaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/001b20d9223b75bac2457d4cc1d32cd6/51479023864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad96f9c3900---labelosa.pdfIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000f43c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF43C 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 5bbab86e87c78b7dce55b6da6d386af7325b1a42940ca3c34212b9b3389ac1ca
font_01_sfnt_off000106ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106AD 15312 bytes
SHA-256: 3647b25b6b26c00f510056e9a8e6dd720f37c0780761ea1b9bc18cca4928acd1
font_02_sfnt_off00013594.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13594 16096 bytes
SHA-256: 3bb08857b08983a257d5a2052628e18542fd51c8d29f5bbef87ea8b8ace00841