Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a89d80ff6e5ab8b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 06:52:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 9f318f7a642d0ed3a0dd7032cab42452 SHA-1: 84ee11e0dfe9ad2beeb1b9d6294bf322afb8937b SHA-256: a89d80ff6e5ab8b07de89840e2df405d9a5d8cac27c2930bca89c04fa0444c5b
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 0.9985

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 http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/54226445438.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kuwaited.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95672831420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mq-water.net/upload/58736633863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itagqatar.zajeltel.com/itag/file/files/61596836541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foulardfotografando.it/file/verojuratolulida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pavobimorazez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ffarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/27392087974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfalu.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96420678566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/vosipobebaniwanukoxafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatphathuy.com/Images_upload/files/37615757453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/fowutekegokogubelefini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2m-m.eu/userfiles/files/14751115306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aba174dd02---26572804438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalecchi.it/userfiles/files/61233304221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132350ff34f8---25437289820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theflowermaker.com/uploads/File/79015583680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/41176849743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balalajka.nu/media/nejakesagepinosovupifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinenieuwsbriefversturen.nl/gebruikers/afbeeldingen/97158311062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/januxatipazunukatom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsevolozhsk.mebel18.com/uploads/files/pivof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihappywash.com/uploads/files/202109041043301059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/zipevizotosalitoxojemafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353513c03fc---92264737682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161330c77c270a---31405858348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=roblox+value+list+mm2PDF 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_off00013dfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DFD 18956 bytes
SHA-256: 962333d464bf8335ade183ec9c447fd3f48024c7091b4c2cb4556568472b136c
font_01_sfnt_off00016fca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FCA 10640 bytes
SHA-256: dabc2f7a3e194cda6cd519a3d9ab236b39b069b94cef0eca0aec8c4910d88327
font_02_sfnt_off0001884e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1884E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1