Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9bd8153ef769f73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:03:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: c5b55a5bf6efbcada448197b3a94d009 SHA-1: 0c821dad47f6328c761c5bcde2746eca01517e06 SHA-256: e9bd8153ef769f7354fae0e910b0842db0d64b488ae9dc73f68d5a9c9ab5b3af
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 0.9967

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://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-20/20210720130131369829.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/zejitadomasezakevaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f62d2d11f2af8fcaa747825bb98ccca1/49483071142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-odincovo.ru/upload_picture/file/silakugowabukede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e20138b698fbcfa37729814972c7daa7/30675217627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yankey.com.tw/demo/public/editor/ckfinder/upload/user_upload/files/16096280906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607844d612fb8---mobozekirawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/pomodonasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebfde89647---fesifefiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbb650b321---gikefawixudakadin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streathamtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/penumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/rovizevexus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surrattsville69.com/clients/8/81/8122276c22396d7fa0996010cc369f50/File/5562695122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c18c5c319a082c7e19f0a34e47c2803/fasotosasariperena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nucamsa.es/userfiles/files/gemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39425619126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnlillylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pavokidewixetonadixetajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982b8318bfd---toponujedupem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9abcea517c---votuzezobefagajeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/mumijukunakexezavaxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05260e193ba2d211529dda727db57c5a/48224250033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hchoanglong.vn/userfiles/file/dekabilosulazoralumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9784f2f3f3---8023259336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/nebokilavikubosibobofuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/nujiwefajegupuvasigaxuxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=guinevere+and+king+arthurPDF 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_off00015b3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B3E 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 070a7be128cd3165d7a5069497e22c4c8b614353116b46d6411c8dde414529fb
font_01_sfnt_off000172d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x172D1 20208 bytes
SHA-256: fd7eac0768a2970b321e5398a154f3113661c29c9307b1846de8f94ee5dc3a14
font_02_sfnt_off0001a666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A666 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1