Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1386b58f268ff7c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:58:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 4d90988aefb3a13456d554ba8dbc37d0 SHA-1: dd8a73321a7f6d4a8203c3d38acdbe530eb9e358 SHA-256: 1386b58f268ff7c13792852eb49de056e57baf68f00186e08be80832f4361b85
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 0.9995

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+power+of+you+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57577085491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/dowugovesopiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamant-x.sk/UserFiles/file/1047489667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47c4lq7pqm576i4j5lkrhrtlu0/23247268719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taiwancy.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/waxeresuzeloxugivojoxubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://change4best.ru/upload/file/sobowaporizajonepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c008bc5f13e---30587988023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shropshirefurniture.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poridujoluxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindseyderence.com/userfiles/files/47042277585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiddeefire.com/media/userfiles/files/bikedisunizul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.com/contents//files/lewaroguzumanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccea34a1ac---22189162073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portamarioarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/45734508826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiyoaquris.cn/upload/userfiles/files/20210607072604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/90519031953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fj317ku6q8l7alldfkhcjcusf/20644045060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/63368920672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/566cd59cf8ca0bb6d2611d91a6dd82b2/pesonanoluvesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3a50b884a4---vujakevokizekezisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smcertificationservices.com/userfiles/files/zokugegonogitizelogod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/mixakimusugumidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxiluzern.ch/khurasan/userfiles/files/90227233887.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_off0000e334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE334 17568 bytes
SHA-256: e095143dcefb45e705a9ab1a554e04e04714f9987cecb3199f92103e9c00ab0a
font_01_sfnt_off000110fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110FE 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 24d72af3040c35260b5a8edf82637a6b58c5f0dc7a70443222e42c5cb6344279
font_02_sfnt_off000127fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1