Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9cbcdc5e730c748…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-06-07 09:15:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 30b0744b3eccb3eb8128b2424d74bd92 SHA-1: 39feec55529bd04ebc4aad7f63eb829809899237 SHA-256: e9cbcdc5e730c7483c680c2befdbf2b0ba34fa98539aded6467f0972fee66d27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 0.9996

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=integrated+density+imagej+western+blot PDF link annotation
    • https://lemanssrl.it/file/maziwevevadatinibodovoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c80edf9c7---wexetutojamewikit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pejo86p778h2mkslccmn029rfa/84844876863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/wezomun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/166ngbsf8ll69h6q2urse0pc1p/75455399941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6be97b050---25154716520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a82a8daae5455b3c24ada546e57b8817/3994007794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/lunulonajulupujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097ef58f094f---67352071982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/sibososekirubuzisolapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaed35144edc925fad2ebc8031cecd54/wukomepanojidob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/19400602043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f5256a923---ditajudukukaliwemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50445bf75de0a154e54f090fb6aec104/29075157399.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
    • https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/309735533In 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d14a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD14A 6204 bytes
SHA-256: 5e25c3a4edd249d5ec0397bb662080ebb7b25aa4fec8e36ed22818ef8c913914
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B1 5492 bytes
SHA-256: bff799a2e9a8d2b30865b990ae02cd63d1b53ceae6c2c68a199be9bb279fd5ed
font_02_sfnt_off0000f960.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF960 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 4907c295fd60d7f4b65e613130b5f48892ca325ecb1d204e36907337a6f27028
font_03_sfnt_off00011ec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EC9 2792 bytes
SHA-256: a6d7b5d04f7cc253e910bc7dbf48565f71a2fa5efd6c63e23c209f98e4469a54