Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9caeb3ab4253ece…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-08-09 09:13:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: cf015d6dc2955df4c3eb008d756fa8fd SHA-1: 29845ecc035320b778ee22a7f7adf80f746f615b SHA-256: a9caeb3ab4253ece002a08fe26379c5fa6b1fae36c970a3a97cf97dd3e29336e
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 0.9913

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://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4de0b90906---madorosuxedafuna.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a43c915e437c166e90a9a86940c60a09/fesomukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accounting789.com/ThImg/file/lunigogakiremelamadewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dd-eng.com/files/files/jaxevomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ec78c2f1ca56019f2b6427543c5b0be/vafanebirubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/17915554324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kap-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50242151103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc7440787673fe7d0e5b84d7246c0bf9/nezum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwynva.com/clients/d/de/de91e19d235d8a3764238851c6b73f99/File/15160391059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d50c67a282---lojamuragejujutozarota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb57k4afbfsvgvp498r4c45lr0/46829063344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kn8f8s9ngjko9ril92t398p1vg/lixasimulosal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/sibelogevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835a4c61fe9---xifilunerulig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjacz.cz/soubory/files/79665192170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92139798805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowprice.com/content/xuploadimages/file/vukisave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec4t44uoep5hkm4l5jm4n6i288/66882972936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/57791464505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/lulisexexaxefusifotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5415284511e677f1d547f8eae7d14d0f/tavulijomasona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipublichouse.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fezibir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koetec.com/home/~ptow/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61379640050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuiquji.net/d/files/43532249660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morebricks.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/matalesavaxokobadazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencelesaline.it/userfiles/files/sikajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+ssf2PDF 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_off00010085.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10085 10080 bytes
SHA-256: d3ae8ef3ce6b60f34b5a63dc199721169d958d3cfb9c8357e82eb2c421eca899
font_01_sfnt_off0001173a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1173A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F4C 18900 bytes
SHA-256: ca1fd247d0c83ef69d2a8fec029191ad408edb15eea3a71285e607aee68d1667