Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9e447d2770167fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-06-18 02:31:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 9762b86e85b1d6b61ea7ee3b9ad774b1 SHA-1: f856bdca07d83a4352f6c9c80c31e46866c949b1 SHA-256: f9e447d2770167fa71c5f536f1142f4f5d73dbaa144b175a3c0161645c2dc834
154 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 0.9863

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+library+city+stories PDF link annotation
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1e1a95c3e---52866223693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2cc8bcf1e1---letanoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t95u1rtkddnljp9f7421dlnm7h/mojulokebabuwumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021052301520483856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddedc82c3d---96057786095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/62379688021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b11b0c16e03---nowisesaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcf99d15678---4155760501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/76239310040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/zonif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/verapofalegagoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/14317091232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b8c49fa7c---nobedugibal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/523bcbfa5aeb60878f0413b6b967f205/rekibevuzexonokuzomokawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d46cb40290---wumepukarugiguritika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a09a512be9---vemitamisoriposobezajefaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcb0565494af015109013eed28dccc57/vorojakexudafaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816922334f9---xurerejipawudala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000da6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA6F 5064 bytes
SHA-256: 5cdf9a2d7fe9bf54bbaf1910b28b9c4236215f501b3d2f5a3e5f2478d178f397
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC1 16392 bytes
SHA-256: d16fca4a22b84f9e2431469140e144acbef6bb50e4e36911cdf3edea5d873f62
font_02_sfnt_off00011de8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE8 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 9320b99deda550142f27c2863323979cb4f5e555579166d59bd20b4a8d1dbcb7