Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e7cad3bde197577…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 03:17:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 347afeaedfacc24c3740fd4af29b398a SHA-1: 1d691d2ed58f0aab3b51e5582e89e68e6fc8f803 SHA-256: 9e7cad3bde197577241869f6108f334bee8708d36fc5af857f9c3f3a7fc2903d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect the user to malicious sites.

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=square+root+of+a+half PDF link annotation
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/babelizosenede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serka.com/serka/upload/files/pikijinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134265f5075f---68972440920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/xefoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hepiran.com/cache/fck_files/file/giledeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45200149003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zl369.net/userfiles/file/saxivelevumixefafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02b249fe19e1c0ec7f7421bb90d0ab5a/vasitapugozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613666135a9cd---26065179166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienchidan.org/uploads/files/mesevenusifikumesag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telorgabus.com/contents/files/pigekenuguderigenatolur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucholainfo.pl/userfiles/file/kovotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/41945486046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahae.hu/files/files/24130610452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/gigejivogevoxefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/sibebisexizuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/radodeduxitagisatikos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariogiardinelli.it/userfiles/files/zuxepagisubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132230b40409---sebuwijilukesor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togelunited4d.com/contents/files/88517921097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seychelles-resort.com/images/blog/file/39689741579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/votaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/muxibet.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_off0000c511.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC511 20060 bytes
SHA-256: 64daec14aa16c19bde97b80942d0f7cc67b8c404d988d6f4241485b6851a8837
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11227 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 37ca5bb43103cf8af60866535354aca2afddaaac0f8a3858acc2dfeaa25b49d6