Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 189cd9e101054cdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-08-10 17:42:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 5cd22b443a6de24ce4abb1de84aaa49c SHA-1: a405b5f34d003ea53aef3b8c71c2cb104c4ae3be SHA-256: 189cd9e101054cdb21810a1d9589e89405991c40466314794c81213aadf5737b
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1553.005 Antivirus Software Disabled

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a password-protected-archive lure and a security-bypass lure. 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 0.9985

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=epson+l360+resetter+adjustment+program+free+download+zip+file PDF link annotation
    • https://yarpaket.ru/userfiles/file/11942320447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610113236a46b---3863311218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a99329f63367c5503e9eea3753f569f/92625771194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/et0o20ggh6ca236snujm4vo0n4/28958879125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuwuzirejulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d1120b7fc4---leriwuvalofamagekiruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ustunongel.com/image/files/bujoxapikekuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/8435823810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.dk/upload/55883839387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secohthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/xatutajavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cb6e615e0---gofafokigalupumisuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solee.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bimiralali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cde588c9131a6f0d1c1c33be4a8bcf1/20189312738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/46159257047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accapierre.it/userfiles/files/didedeleropabemabuteku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hv2barrier.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84666089673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qhldcm8c4r0esvqe5mug2inm70/zazubewozekaxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklasik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59921689161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21a95fb762ab3d06f0cb57dc1117dd0b/jewiwanitusitoxiniwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c357a8ab7cf1835a63449e923b19f9ce/19474727287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8382f6689923668597fd3681fb82ac91/91716826660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotojursa.cz/userfiles/file/zekolususulagevutevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/2248791208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b266082571a---9670746334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1nebgt760vlg87udnp7m667hu5/vuwuxowobef.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_off0000f7eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7EB 11664 bytes
SHA-256: 6a3ce83c10fcda03d77c275a4ea3c69692fa11ac8304fda06ec789d95c3d317c
font_01_sfnt_off00011397.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11397 17456 bytes
SHA-256: 9eb1b19b8e48c5b4e904dfef206dea8cad65340d3bec6a60e9d0e50573291675
font_02_sfnt_off000140ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1