Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9d0dee4ec6b887b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-05-20 06:25:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 158b20a181414c77cb38aeb8c7f23dd9 SHA-1: 10c075429cd579766b7fbb3d8073dcadf474c7bf SHA-256: d9d0dee4ec6b887b40e7394d7c4a549afea32961f54a35cdb6c610d75053e962
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which host other PDF files. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'Teclado yamaha psr 2100 manual', likely a phishing pretext to encourage downloads of further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52e22cf21cd75fec8544eecb124937fb/delodelojosiditokonig.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e0d588943---rawasobigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/48713903468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6jdqs52ved3b30b4odvkcrbkd/86649740751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607786bd81fd2---23265511704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/gozurimazifowudaratokoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f6bb03899---28771226813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/wefumidaxovuzos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/82497666314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/41266745983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bb8f7f6831170cb1ba6149ae520d041/53201715926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608759899246f---56192641033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1055da6e7---putem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e28ecd116---99631241923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=teclado+yamaha+psr+2100+manualPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE97 5688 bytes
SHA-256: 71681edca63822ab9641ce1da5da1b189c8a011e792d955b3c08939ae45cd1d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1CD 12800 bytes
SHA-256: af30c6104da17eb01931a0c7fd86e81aa4a5ce3a6b01c91953b2331e4689dd35