Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9f03278400abd79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:53:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 2d2c3dc66173b5133fa2cf0f38e1ec04 SHA-1: 260fe4d47244ce85c15059aa486ce2f63653a67a SHA-256: b9f03278400abd79c5d6dcfdc550db53c3ea34c8e7717de416b3c46e41491950
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 0.9976

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gospel+of+the+nativity+of+mary+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://lncl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55197185757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duepassidalcentro.it/userfiles/files/68192746348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/67778997416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/18141001652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://permargi.com/files/galeria/files/81559621467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61ae5a6931ea324f9751b6dae1009051/sejabaxugejilodimoxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcc6067afb---rasijatuvivirigixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4d44b0cc9---69659308199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e9454abc4442de08080168bf66d0c34/tulometiraxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b88054ef8---tojipovudawolinabupujep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lt9kcvn63bgl3mvr0ouv3srftr/96464443519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/dikepufesoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5laf9tjtio4migk59m4tcs2s4/toganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radis-rrl.ru/userfiles/image/puvujezusavebakifigape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f93362547---gasamowum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jucrmnp19fagshoa6ra3t9cjj7/19800617448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/44167378172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjyhyy.cn/filespath/files/20210814195908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2ff513362---70450307284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/zilizizulolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f00eeb6104f---47397066806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3a221b9ddcc04a0541d0104f43c6665/12672510771.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_off0000f5c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C1 18188 bytes
SHA-256: b04d829cc88b0a1ecb58ab5800fe5299e88a31b2e7065cd72243d7f2a997ff2e
font_01_sfnt_off00012480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12480 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 5ea89a2251fb78e1f6363c26f02b785292986f9b684d8ed15b2e7d18e2fd9f4c
font_02_sfnt_off00013dda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1