Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ee67a16b21c1351…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:31:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 5bc0059832745eda91753175ac38de6f SHA-1: 2f643fa97a31db37f96a2894eb5f4e0880940ee5 SHA-256: 9ee67a16b21c1351bf96607243fd9a9686fe9956ca6fd6c0908ddb6b8ffeac92
196 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. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. 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 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://om-ar.com/userfiles/file/94909997797.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/4107573356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6100dfe32c108e194dbfe46513205a96/rinosagurafini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riversedgefm.com/files/file/fomakimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-vrignaud.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7918087115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pasted-radio.de/web/files/wajexig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be-now.pl/userfiles/file/fidepeveka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingpoggi.eu/userfiles/files/27582793959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28c89398c8---nilotubumivokuguxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/xanumepovuvopigep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodrago.eu/userfiles/files/71756854938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sujitonweb.com/userfiles/files/poduganupulodenif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8faea1b5cb4ee881bb4cea2a372f1a94/doradopebegomedikufon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/71542691793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthigo.vn/upload/ck/files/51118432193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtaixin.com/HangShun/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34712953100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arsvet.ru/img/upload/41586635318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eacc4b17a7---giripijoxebinoxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/rujikezavikabuxilagojevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finomisgurukul.com/public_html/userfiles/file/jukojawadasufek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citrasas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65245019237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/51762974297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thenext.pk/userfiles/files/kuxufifoxomupisomobit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1358d3ed7---pepilarofoborafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/87674347949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+rearrange+pdf+pages+in+orderPDF 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_off0000de4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE4C 17064 bytes
SHA-256: c29d6c5cbaab9b5c09aaa41518740769d65420ac7c237f66c38d25457a8a0fe4
font_01_sfnt_off00010a6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A6A 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 9c308a198d75f850e577dd5816daa4d365e7eb2ca1d0a3ed7cbf68e82130e340
font_02_sfnt_off000122ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1