Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e8c9fa492de9d8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-25 15:06:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: bb6b718d800f010826375dce90d4d732 SHA-1: ccf1960348fdce2060fc9b1f127d2be4ce5e99b4 SHA-256: 9e8c9fa492de9d8bc9bd0c8528e5afd028ba005927c7b71f9a2ad8699e5b58b0
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

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, presents a deceptive download button and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://a-1commercialkitchenservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84539281400.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75c98b6536---6340220956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatfieldfarms101.com/userimages/23327563359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1773fa274ce3bf8bcc12da56abc41e9f/59218172500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l663e6csmcko5p6ebp7skfle2n/45997191415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/45998494207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity-pro.ru/userfiles/file/88823867136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaisar168.com/contents//files/xexuwasixemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d6bb20040511d44dbff1c66742305a2/wivebusugixotovesokaxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/8654334690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d57821f804---51367839242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jirenofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eia-edu.com/userfiles/file/saromewiwenavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://48bulls.com/js/upload/files/94132705897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/xuditixuxaralib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11e7c6a7c4dd199d7f9eb2c7525fdc7a/24441917487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a6a7c3deeaa487937f50ca4fb23d29a/lenutizefonivuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/detexafumimozoxoxokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/90244201721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cc67ab9cac95d3fbcc11a787476ef37/laderataxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a60580c458d---92457551746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uanslnii582a2jranbehtikdn2/81128395186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adreshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/27132036480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=frozen+full+movie+download+for+freePDF 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_off0000fe69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE69 17092 bytes
SHA-256: 7cca976971c1a5c3a1337e4285bccf13703215ea731fe96b205887835ebfbfbd
font_01_sfnt_off00012a9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000142b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142B1 10536 bytes
SHA-256: cf3b426280a9036442c8c2a6c44f9e1064af9b7806aa3cb215b00ae1dc6df353