Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9bbd53e4ab08942…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-28 06:36:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: e4863a4102ea4959b93b6304e5d44786 SHA-1: 517e255f366869a55c00fcf88297b49b907d6ee3 SHA-256: d9bbd53e4ab0894265d637adbaa0df8638b66467febc6a34fa075f11a7b2d8ca
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 0.9956

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=eukaryotic+and+prokaryotic+cells+similarities PDF link annotation
    • https://sicurezzaips.it/uploads/file/25732254683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/94683233854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/savutisug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.blog/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/fixaderatukezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://righetti-ticozzi.it/userfiles/files/nidojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salocchi.it/userfiles/files/55588301804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/vadenane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bi-kiesabbau.de/cmsimple/images/file/65673457096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savemaxint.com/files/file/gerelowesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/2306485147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/mitinurosobunakejoxelone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lwsg1seumdzsx.com/upload/fckeditor/file/51180978369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161421d7a0cf3e---fatebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechloyalty.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/9955537478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zensushialiso.com/uploads/files/83489231637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/gixepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/gedapuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalamathachurch.org/cms_uploads/image/file/83347612224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tysons-cafe.com/uploads/files/dokixisus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.com/userfiles/file/47381062686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147a90e57fc1---vuxasudazugarunevata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qap9ammqv9hk6sb29v70i9khs3/27328249546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613495084a0fe---67163833888.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_off0000af43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF43 10964 bytes
SHA-256: b4bfc0df529bed7cba5dbb84ac4493a829faf517a0e32e3f13b10638c0493e24
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8BC 15348 bytes
SHA-256: 8fb71b32d4349253a766135f0997e8b039dc23ca97a8d22de382c8f58db7fd59
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1