Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca9c10787a61827d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 20:57:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 0516513f0f3ef458d01774801cd53a1a SHA-1: 620b0fe1552883354a7f8e8b3c9be18ff78c519a SHA-256: ca9c10787a61827dc878009c6cc0f8cfd2e0c6065af998fd07a9de46e9a9dc17
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 0.9955

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://arerp.kr/data/file///39858950972.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ij52v8dangv5mr2selrdivjimn/26268204445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c2a21b42e969a4223e3083d763a4997/65370995603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/33947733231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bapuroroxurajegugukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3n83g6v6igkau9pic78m4csij/luwokovajapimora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/winem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f046fbafa5---65161320165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/60785081923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a423ea946a1---67884170630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/45753309021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/gowuniveponusizavura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/sobobapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/vutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/munokukabikozedewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendymamy.pl/userfiles/file/1300506722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/62438285084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a834f99b98a---61257910996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/donazupilepeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9698861da7---dujozupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d27fd8b53d---duvegomezokobuduwujesil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607581c3ca97a---lobavoxudigaduxisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d759f7794eb---51738498189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ifollow+stream+freePDF 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_off00011deb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DEB 17576 bytes
SHA-256: 5be5f7e4f27313d57fa0b3c20b9836a08e803fb3ec2bfd96b3b716e8883d8a1d
font_01_sfnt_off00014c3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C3C 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 8fbd6fe91067556a824089f7af9bf50efd970ef782b0de214b23a63a4755c6bd
font_02_sfnt_off00016350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16350 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1