Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9f6eed38c7151f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:33:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 87ff5a6c09be4b95a212ec41c356c106 SHA-1: 3685d2bf0355493a643cc0da5e1cdc262a66803c SHA-256: a9f6eed38c7151f1ef9d43cb03f7a2de33e95045b0c0098f5b0c21eb6cde9ef6
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 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ateliergermain.club/sites/default/files/file/81765396065.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sanmorales.es/userfiles/files/nekogepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/39864608412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i03mmbhop9d1e6qmolbme8vtu8/48845515709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liga-stf.ru/i/upload/files/37383543916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/diziteroneson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db786d26b25---57441359958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab2dc3985b7---66523075160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/95427414586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aab323bf88---97823534255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a59c322d87cf99c553175c559d5e70e5/tijunegofonuman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalmanpower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/reson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecac8b16504---74225756084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiro-seiko.com/upload/files/1482015405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vjr5bdkorof050mjvqdoqlcve/tedojefelanelivajazelati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161291b63af547---dupodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/24554205981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jghsclass75.com/clients/f/f3/f322050927ea28328664fd088939ffaa/File/gamojuvama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9cc38e0a11---rozojudemotol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0ad96b57e---tabagafugovomazuwilituzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/userfiles/files/purudojukawogazodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fst-uinsu.net/userfiles/files/67787745833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2191fb257c29d338727960ef5b75424/kuduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/warolubekesifewut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f406bea27f---91240883737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+best+answer+the+weakness+interview+questionPDF 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_off0000e6ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6AD 10780 bytes
SHA-256: f0a3b63d72e49e5f70d1dc0d5a559bb5dc5fad164063a1f4ce25900d8239d0a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF80 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 2563b4251799d7fff031b5eb20423d81a7c8d25e43d15221ac43f0b6d3177d25
font_02_sfnt_off00012c9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1