Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ed8dfb479b78b6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-08-26 06:29:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 71f3849a2bf4cfec5cf1e5ee6ad0e8c6 SHA-1: 390b0196b9015d2fa2dd8d57ac5a4dd50f204e86 SHA-256: 9ed8dfb479b78b6a67e39d85f21f83c7f4e9ecef5bb0df48683743de2449da0d
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 0.9977

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://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/14934638165.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e673958f515ca2825265dd5277937c57/dikojusadakubezikukaluxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc3c24abfc---97592020381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cncforginghammer.com/d/files/98997997154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/428e58vla9i0i8qbio04judn08/gejitozowalepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4uassp3i50g816p1n9upnhhs3/54898546856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaonhaphatphap.com/images/uploads/files/26303950333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5735b2e55a---pupodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d67d2670338c9f42e80a133ffcd42409/30961882493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827eb12fb32---74811833273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///vorujefidovoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///donopotipelogimibuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dba5c6a44b---panikobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/nekobunabelulegeruze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r464gdb2sgg3r4vlf6bkkts035/mugarorudatowogezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fandimnarodaku.cz/upload/file/7134064236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongbinhduong.net/uploads/files/59687359860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geosond.pl/userfiles/file/52689336375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avonsteel.com/UserFiles/file/59208469384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/20762820471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160805498718af---8122281894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/tenuruvenejuropikasoror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aaptuk.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82033479626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+function+of+a+vesicle+in+a+cellPDF 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_off0000d88f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD88F 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 2d6439f0e3c75fb01a0154413b62670090e177f3d2f0a102e12b2deeddf8ab3a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f06a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF06A 16604 bytes
SHA-256: 9eece42de97430763ce961cc6b5eaab040e7ea1098147027461307c3e3896230
font_02_sfnt_off00011b4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1