Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d8a1c2eb8a213db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

127.4 KB Created: 2021-06-01 12:08:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: b261736c8d729ab958e62b6a25257568 SHA-1: ec510d3f232480aacbdbae2b828636350960ecd4 SHA-256: 9d8a1c2eb8a213db35e5c1024af116e9c65004ee0f51007e93d1676b00d73383
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 0.9998

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://debeleven.net/UserFiles/File/877639305.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdfdea1c1eb10245b9fa441011ec063a/49833740765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/jitaviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gk0rj2qqr22j0h07f0cdf38si5/8925479223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1f99e7958e780afcd2e760e1cd96e97/xuzopilaboxewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waelfawzy.com/userfiles/file/32139409169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7567850d4---nedoleboludolowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d788039854---legeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/tumulibubaxitop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9vh3m79psn422i9ap3slpkedp/42558283186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a024f6cb4fc---11873533637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609af751835ed---jijomujakovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/rumudijuranotusev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=barron%2527s+ap+human+geography+6th+edition+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE963 67440 bytes
SHA-256: 5bc6112b786748a86815389a64fcfca4d892d97d3b25a306886c8a2b69f41025
font_01_sfnt_off0001b334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B334 5764 bytes
SHA-256: fab86a92101600de4a6db6c5882558ccbb21a23876941bfc37839d46be70800a
font_02_sfnt_off0001c6c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C6C0 11820 bytes
SHA-256: de7909d1156296ee04faf74c8219e3cf34a6569b364bbc185800355f80779bbe

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.