Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f967b88a99dd5cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-06-22 19:29:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 7fe2eeca7c9516838b5d5e09b8d97082 SHA-1: 7ee96369dfc376ae60e51cf23aeb0efa4dedf68f SHA-256: 9f967b88a99dd5cdc648250f3c9eae8d3ad4d63df2e8b92442e68ef53e2b94bc
156 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. 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 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=9th+tamil+book+new+syllabus PDF link annotation
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e722ce2027---doxojopawevajiveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nslogisticservice.com/userfiles/files/80857711161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749805d13cf---94838618278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b971c1b7c8---78949407850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/60359796029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/80572927612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/18413169821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/pijuxirinipir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac75125ae60---kuzotobixodazevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7p2nf90ig3hnp547jsc93031e4/wimasibitafafupefudifilen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdaae5d9069---484877043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cde588c9131a6f0d1c1c33be4a8bcf1/20189312738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/595c076204824f91e6b6c647d46fd61c/4614018541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094038a48e04---84971355698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessdevelopmentcenter.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/bapasiwujonefegowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb76a8b77b3---53047758754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off0000f190.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xF190 17536 bytes
SHA-256: b04292c5623317aea7a950c99e63add2d71f8fbdfedbfa56751646136897da1c
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFAB 5288 bytes
SHA-256: de1f969d37e139871602b35b5908b2dfc785b0f9b3afaf81711ae4a5fa8a5bb9
font_02_sfnt_off00011845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11845 10616 bytes
SHA-256: e895d6cd2c27f54d6e0ffcbd213d1914ae5023d5c5bf00a856acb0b09b680d3c