Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cf56053d3606bb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:02:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 4cfe05a7a28777a93dab14a7a2024e27 SHA-1: 4701ea67c5d16997372b4f5898ffb033dc36bbd8 SHA-256: 9cf56053d3606bb86f84786c50145740f878553041bead5d6d81fe930e0d826c
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 0.9948

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://westhigienia.hu/editor_up/961470421.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://acm-medicali.it/userfiles/files/43062659230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cs168.tw/upfiles/editor/files/bezutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3409683d4b---44003090729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m4krichmond.org/clients/3/3b/3bf4c986be49c21931b3574e72fd8103/File/27371092142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailynewsodia.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/gugopusisunowuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pritchardreunion.com/clients/81409/File/79683199286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ce7c3ae7b---83609114317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cauthangdep24h.com/upload/files/siwikeximazikofizufefupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/dibabuvigozefukazepuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamat.ro/UserFiles/file/7790695213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daikinhbac.com/upload/files/3927619782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercerapparelss.com/userfiles/files/20949737945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/kokenotonumeguludanufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fc0bf97b0fdd5be46136b1f1bc8ab25/44104200591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/84532190256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveworldtogether.com/datas/files/53687474464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinahongji.com/d/files/zomudajeloxapuvonexunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong.info/userfiles/file/dufixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/vodepajojije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://llux.vn/uploads/files/82417783264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/97213815883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saimiri.name/upload/file/fivawoxumut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cbc+results+interpretation+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF14 16756 bytes
SHA-256: 8ad2de8825d3866624ae95c79747d77ae63a23697a8d183e005ce66c5f315310
font_01_sfnt_off00011a7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A7A 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 22b98b0d9551a101169de884a730cd58dfb916d81f9b89d2da9eb3d2e3a6b0bb
font_02_sfnt_off0001338c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1338C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1