Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d98cc9fa2072a104…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-08-07 17:52:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: ba331fc81ec70ebb11fba938aa6ea25b SHA-1: 3c8823222e9e3c521ff2694422f6fd32e8b56e1e SHA-256: d98cc9fa2072a1044e593ed9636b0d7e7405d0bb5de0995b315ed58e770df3c4
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 0.9961

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://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608761fc2d6b8---78127829482.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a310a3ba93f---soxogobiwosorezufero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalroomplus.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/zakimumokudiwataso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608acae2cd817---85351909314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/36907120403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/visap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16202082977512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/29257040199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/vefik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/23138920939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pressvaluation.net/userfiles/file/kowilafomorek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc12ecea64deb8cc4099b3d88eed8c8a/95649491165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad672a8dfe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45e7965c34---zelorojofanuwuson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cf1330e49440934cf753bb58b9cd647/68914899414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e050db1f6c---borekelakisavuwive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/bevev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bca7eeafe5c56feefe7270c557b3e66/56348703617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southport1969.com/clients/861680/File/87369979566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/sepipixerav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/segexojalitozalaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e428fcfc62c3bba0e128e0b688e5c925/refedubolimirupeputawilem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/64509477709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=www+androidoyun+club+nss+2.10PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7BD 18584 bytes
SHA-256: 9c9c9b94dc6e0b18b8619c3dc2655ae1f315ccf0d242032b8dc740a5d0b85923
font_01_sfnt_off0001053d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1053D 1692 bytes
SHA-256: 6df00093d1a1fd8b8f95901b42ba2863538c90606311dd4adf1993a433792d13
font_02_sfnt_off00010d46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D46 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 7945338e1ff19d7b53fcfa8c9432bbed569f67ed2b49f1558cb1f4d909c5c920
font_03_sfnt_off000126c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1