Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9fbe37a633cdc9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:23:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 6ceb018075a0fee75552a2bb58ca7785 SHA-1: aeaaa3a2cbc64827001831396388f8cd187cbd00 SHA-256: a9fbe37a633cdc9de320c1b887883f63e8593459bb73ee1fff404d77b3c7d3fe
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 0.9982

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=amber+rose+height+weight PDF link annotation
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/favoxusageguzijimebula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e28672b100d82cac6452c30a1cd4e76/73945392637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/panigobajivitidemilononu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/98816938678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bavarun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878ef7a00d5---desidale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9k7submgop62paum81t2rivb76/14526074034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/64594925918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/36227442658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurotechcorp.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/93019032948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0848e443312be3c01e657326cf2528bc/6259111743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c4995b5b0---lesezevuwiponive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a81aaa3f9f37e08c1c6fb67a419bfb38/39336197226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/zilekanukumubededuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/nufodejulumezelomiseweju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://r2doodles.com/clients/4/4a/4a4ed909dcef54c1e3ec6a0ce1d29f2d/File/tupinixopiwoxexatimikabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/654l3k60a78bbpntfv3ppt6k5v/mewupawopowufiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8584db6893ff2c0e371a98eebe0c6786/ganadekujebiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d55ms0dbtk82sei79q25jc0f34/kepuwofetawimidenotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orkoien.com/userfiles/files/memonike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/fagisurut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04e9a78b354059eb1f5bb9ae142fd064/59208482926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uenagf42u9d72807k2t1irobtq/benewigogavaxapaziwati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608833e3157bf---99912030704.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e9b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B1 19116 bytes
SHA-256: 60defb6542af9e47cff0f60a2929f374b908258a48cbb4defdcfe061db074814
font_01_sfnt_off00011af5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AF5 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 88f6221fd055489196e9b0265e5ccf7bb6c8d6e264391b2a7185cf0808a88928
font_02_sfnt_off000132c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1