Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f1bc78ae04993f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:20:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a81491ff9c584c76a737559f555319d1 SHA-1: 0aa739311303d5fe7518e4c83da4460e6e8feef7 SHA-256: 9f1bc78ae04993f9983a0473d26eea74b010e5029ec045ab391bbf5c3fbe3109
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised websites. The heuristics indicate a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content, likely through phishing or exploitation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, suggesting it's part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • 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.
  • 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://spiregene.com/image/files/20210726_225048.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70971719855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/teborafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba024c24f509c6d2f554ff018d6c19e6/40889228539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c3f728a50a72494d5dc2f09430c8dc1/93327241950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/powanigolorapaxinub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobergamaschi.it/userfiles/files/vidajakodumobivenomapomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98390c98ce665a0317e932e54bbe10ec/vumomusudagunepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/39592234746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112c08f6a316---fobegowekuzunufotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d06e6cc7f7---zasifixusafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40371501385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jacenter.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77816586722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c19a4fcaf4e---pijopalexitovodesegekage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f39b3273f---64901352831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioprogettoarchitettura.eu/userfiles/files/387986159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/75127005905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c39a6b4565c---96776369612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/jukemokedozomikefuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a22aef1f19---gugome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chpcentre.com/files/file/25136191009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/xovowetexubeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theurbanthinktank.com/files/48973946013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608992069fef7---mebovomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee7bb6a7e3d---46054123882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=brucella+species+pdfPDF 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_off0000d7af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7AF 17016 bytes
SHA-256: 01f1dd1733e9fc028f998e9f5362c899fe91754f71fc8e3124b39e86ba6a4f43
font_01_sfnt_off000103ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC2 10444 bytes
SHA-256: feff3f3ee940c33e7ad9d77a3e9528d25de19053afefc7fcd5fcb2f2c2df4412