Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8a9e99570530908…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-13 15:18:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 51184e8b7f24f030d7cc03055b3e941d SHA-1: 61e3b0a4986bf47c841c97bce9622b51f2672ff0 SHA-256: f8a9e99570530908c4db6d92a99fd5d04b9176bf549b7e704766973e58e1602a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/vokelavemutivel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://seigyobannkaigaikikaku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/notidijarubobaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubesquilacoma.com/uploads/files/56058243576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6e196d830---jutogepumoxajagovarumuvuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06ccf97b05---61147562848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laxycoffee.com/upload/files/butokigosuxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96j7qrbhmji6lv0jrm5ajpmt92/nesemajozofawasibepupoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/31895963302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79ce84a8476bceae7c8d6d69b8868543/gosazaxidajatogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/9508521763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbad50e85f4---70188012199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079468b02ca6---wosuzes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdf9dbb0a19a430c0a5719fa18f282ce/zupupanagizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/jexajivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092006fc9a9a---32989858226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaskinfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b798c9f9e2af69c3a5b950a06e4ade8e/File/majozevujozudagixorogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/nikati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/8399312508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44189343df---97379689511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae314a786d0d986ad7ac6852a0f576ae/17138800725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/po506g6819cqbrobap5f25545r/2931530273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/romogadenedubopiwogej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/kixomapudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1egclu9klcjkps5m7mgs9g9rt/girobarabilezimiburor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normandyclassof79stl.com/clients/e/e1/e16d7b8530e96d8d426d6b963c92b0b5/File/1529095467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+audition+1.5+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e6b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B0 16868 bytes
SHA-256: b57f56c075738deeb3155070da74859fa55bac42450165a0d535892284ba7a9b
font_01_sfnt_off000112ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112AE 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 70edd76ac6b7d0a69ba0912b824fd924a6202b7f1432345f1377b468ebed7908
font_02_sfnt_off00012b9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1