Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 196175ae584b834a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-23 13:01:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f3f3d9ff9e983432150caf8de1b2dfbc SHA-1: 539b370707ff87d231adc1fa6cbc2e4b3af67b35 SHA-256: 196175ae584b834a897a75ea6b4a8f82d5a63b2587309ad4d1a0796de1c24937
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' specifically highlights links hosted on compromised WordPress installations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/palulopub.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144a9ea42a22---sijubadovixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-p-n.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/16636872933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--90ah6akb9e.xn--p1ai/f/file/dujijirabokerikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fbf9f368d6---tazilerenitedewubikanax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingdove.tw/uploads/files/202109131457413139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_6FEA1FD364C815F4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saothienemb.com/uploads/images/files/7931008460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-p-p-c.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20530389937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlmahtani.com/userfiles/files/reporewopuwuzuwobizudawug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artstudiodesign.it/userfiles/files/10306818110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfielddeli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73504664901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/52123175866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krusomying.com/data/file/nebige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stisk.com/file/vuboxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseproduction.net/file/6465609002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miass.realxenon.ru/uploads/files/93074452659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semot.com/Store/userfiles/file/revobusivonutelomat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainternacional.com/userfiles/file/sofipufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adriennemason.com/assets/files/sezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soeurs-scjboran.fr/soeurs/upload/files/40477838010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/noxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c1b03944f3---pojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karlholmbygg.se/UserFiles/files/91988986539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=subway+surfers+low+mb+gamePDF 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_off0000bbe0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBE0 16776 bytes
SHA-256: c96824025117514255b63e61d6089dc77c8ceff2a1d84945238939b548032e02
font_01_sfnt_off0000e720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE720 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF37 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 77825d11f37a72a05f961125f61e4273365a60dd9a2d76a7b4a9e84a20927e36