Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e60aa9a8b9eb4c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 11:07:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 04963ef67cdb5c0e00537b5fc6f53eaf SHA-1: 746fbe109beed82fa95c910d29c794da39a59fe5 SHA-256: 9e60aa9a8b9eb4c8c86963acab6321460de22ff608f3cf61d36c552d1b37c46f
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 0.9953

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=esl+worksheets+for+adults+reading+comprehension PDF link annotation
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801bd8d7d68---fimavopuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/netusiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/mumubaxixaporal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088782dabf08---79752250732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/15417781373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb4cc8145f---8493335353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03ff73feb11a39cdaabe65838119ded6/jikepatudojupoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/179405e50512c929ec8e58a95707ff13/23961344889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ativn.com/upload/file/ruwuneken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/logabipotaradozobowopaxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/24052443039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/78762253754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedwines.com/cmsCart//upload/file/61199134314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changju-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/28180639843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73a23d0f3e2b1df3203f7c800ac8850f/pemerasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfaq738tvd8b6kug78kcesr76v/zurebamijavevojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607008c58023b---89399220087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793ff524293---96013449413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607082e94748a---53797524822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/887d0b4296d7590e8d87973468a4b43a/74133796310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiguwekifux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlsxjy.com/right/UploadFile/file///2021083116160373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggies-handmade.com/UserFiles/files/xoxokawudikexotowan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbf642826c---29944948083.pdfIn 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://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_off0000ce30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE30 17356 bytes
SHA-256: 2cd9e1ebcb8d601356bcfb30f70a784009bbeb3927318425adf2f46c3fa147b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fab5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB5 11328 bytes
SHA-256: eec7625e66590cf09a38d1759bf83b7bb0a4fcaa10b10368be728f5d94287b0e
font_02_sfnt_off00011503.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11503 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1