Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e946975ae96fb10d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:42:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 9ef06410d7094112d3c43d6f030c1fa9 SHA-1: 2b53458438230ff9b69d78d5d799e9701638f16d SHA-256: e946975ae96fb10da45455d51600fd5947c6b994a98ae9d408c591263fec09e9
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 0.9994

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=people+are+not+social+distancing PDF link annotation
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/96143152417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutitar.com/user_img/files/55513525605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boisehighclassof1965.com/clients/879780/File/16636809672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovevietnam-vnss.com/upload/file/givuratov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/139724989609b09053a9a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocvn.com/userfiles/image/file/vitidubulovozapunigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb88ae490c---57678056268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/puzemadevikelesesobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyacer-ecp.com/userfiles/files/20210703_161104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bk.knu.ac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29557957607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phukhoabacninh.com/images/files/40161598297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/42495156545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/30169942056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/sotum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oletrans.sk/editor_uploads/files/konofalabevaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahdrilling.com/userfiles/files/90660699061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/42293786041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93db666c0d35649482e7cc2d2460c68b/baguwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongthuyphatloc.com/luutru/files/54025769114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eniedu.com/data/file/20210807005613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8853u446pco7vjrgadmveukou5/gifelobegoxasexik.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_off00012614.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12614 18700 bytes
SHA-256: a1b190740dcdafb1f26159fb941f138b86a1eb7d233673a514569eb817649f5e
font_01_sfnt_off00015682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15682 10692 bytes
SHA-256: c07296d17b75ba0063e8feb853010f124e6b5e1106000b746c429ca069d7245e
font_02_sfnt_off00016ef0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16EF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1