Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fdd5b575fef3abb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-06-24 01:30:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: ee08fd4a2c47148e9a67979ce2edba00 SHA-1: da8d8691fc5818c077560a07a9c33374057c5191 SHA-256: 9fdd5b575fef3abb8e1765fe5f8b7e955d761f9c52db091be6e68cb294b768a1
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 0.9996

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=algorithm+design+manual+ebook PDF link annotation
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc4d5b41b1---vigefigomebetupebasexorem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607801f69e31a---jiniwirofeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vil4jbuq50vgacadhae2ih7f22/sudufolakugedirudowafinag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f56f10e07ce73cac25ecf2f1e20083e0/65521437465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d19a99ce8d---fadukexamokeditoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e34d3a3c9cc0b2a2f97e9741f351e9bc/18168686293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/29903176002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf679923330---xapubij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/getabobuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/67920667221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1af6684d183559fdcd21340776e1a3b/dudoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b80ef9b5fc---jelorowiwenubememutagega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-spa-resorts.com/dok/lajikivuzaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dd11d0007bafa50db369d0ae1b4f025/dilubas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac20840773f---kugotutadirekij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE1C 5572 bytes
SHA-256: b964afe13489725024f842e167341f0f3e97617ea96206c00a77fd8e2d182045
font_01_sfnt_off0000f179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF179 5312 bytes
SHA-256: a8993be386532d435f6550bbc1b29e99d7cb97a3a0512f8bee23376eb5d8254c
font_02_sfnt_off00010356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10356 16032 bytes
SHA-256: d3ee60463a4c0b898633e2557feec2e2e5e4ed4a13762282ea71a8210e1769d8
font_03_sfnt_off00013414.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13414 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2