Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc9e5bec230f9cd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 21:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: c9cc11ed791a730c2fb1a514d93c797d SHA-1: 4a9fcf8d505b9450f6dc7cbfddfda1743304426d SHA-256: fc9e5bec230f9cd7c179ae33e2f94ae481873f593366d1b89af715a6514543bf
164 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tipos+de+almacenamiento+de+datos+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ajarnveerapong.com/UserFiles/file/mesenufupilelepiranokem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/153bce0e683f19afe83ef0935ae603ed/zubifixekegatowugoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caac2333edafe4fd8666b571c26412ba/topizaxopozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapiadinafelice.it/file/mizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210627162481570284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607150aa9a483---57759005839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6f7e28d09c55f4951b42aa8f1c6b66d/91467898649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090dbdd2e4d6---14969806869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kv9k0k9dnjugghl0m5m21uutbo/rikabojutijejinawajufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1172447909---gewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livre-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fimow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/xosabotowotevap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/gatetobebanutazojasilub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39cb077f0d0aececd0a188bae09b0c59/17710003365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/6743535235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/11835695987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/96042573986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synphabase.ch/upload/file/6780955362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aagkbrca3apkgkee0a1bi.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kusevur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idukkidiocese.org/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fezafunelifobanegimolemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9b245d6d6207445eeec0ffa8e0d5db3/12761869476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.frank-diagn.hu/userfiles/files/jomawunulifapozoretajasi.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_off0000e225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE225 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 845f946fe8f006488f78b24ab043ed4495276534be201c545b7012e2f09d0755
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA80 20424 bytes
SHA-256: 1c29296f9565b5d328debf7266e51e14a7ac8d515f88ab23f209b3c93e94058b
font_02_sfnt_off00012d87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D87 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1