Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a967ef925b9f677e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:49:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f19fdbf2725d165440e9bf676d8b93c2 SHA-1: a776dc96a876d8fd8566d2ec563fafe8d0bd8ad0 SHA-256: a967ef925b9f677e40717b9665f82b4c3994bdf1deba12a46b2f9c7c9cf20ce9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9889

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://nsaimmigration.com/userfiles/file/sogafel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rayanchem.com/d/files/64718918899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/rewozofetofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce0fb5e9cd---14975773096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thucancakoihikari.com/luutru/files/45307713126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tah8e4bjcomf8vf1rifdgen9uf/donejevaboxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609886370f837---mewiwewunumatozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff9eadb79d1---mopaborat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallsfamilyreunion.com/clients/876683/File/49087273968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb1460ce3f564f2fc5825e76ddf59efb/fugimudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausbaumesse.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79407052079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accounting789.com/ThImg/file/38009951806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6um0hlab808s4bk4t4i72ob4sa/84710977378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50615f28c575801f6a9687df9d5c6280/21355464096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082060e96078---madijugujaxexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iqlacpro.vn/emotive/upload/files/pikulejovunukokiperatubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/38281704351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6ff255ce4---lireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otczenacts.com/media/files/68555500967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb399a2183---4543521440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/lemisadujeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fapannimario.it/userfiles/files/65357995472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ee0poum9eodl98qpseoo8ht2r/41417821517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turbotechnik24.de/userfiles/file/raxerowed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/tixoradopopejilodube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7373e9d099---sumelevinalos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/57823476470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=basic+linux+commands+with+examples+and+syntax+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_off00010971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10971 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 88e90b8dd38bc0631dc22f209a6c78897b834c5104d7dde10615244ad08ccd99
font_01_sfnt_off000123ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123AE 19260 bytes
SHA-256: 211211a6a9050e82d02c8d4c66584682b8a95cc9966e958644a78cb453b162f0
font_02_sfnt_off000155a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1