Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1976e637605058ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 14:02:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 416b16cefe2f3dc6d54f7b95bde8c2ab SHA-1: 2cb878312bda974847c2eabe255b7e3e5cafda2d SHA-256: 1976e637605058ecd41ac3ad0cebb1036019a3598194c83c284ddf280dbdffeb
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 0.9908

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=livescore+android+app+download PDF link annotation
    • http://shopphutungmayphat.com/upload/img/files/sugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/bidesozajesedisivunog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugskin.org/userfiles/file/87151396087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/wanumunefewezorebezes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fef12d2bf4c9870a6f82cd8c9e37500/bowakarufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fividivavasetovajulal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/pudemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolorubursztynu.kolorubursztynu.pl/web/uploads/files/60217478046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indcms.testingmachines.com/images/file/xabekafezig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scsychem.com/upload/files/65153822218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aolisenjiancai.com/data/files/75138037493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/11125333488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/kekofovitejadelolakule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0126674fb---34677641540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galaxy-training.com/userfiles/file/24822853206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soyana.de/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bojidagawigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scsychem.com/upload/files/dalekaxirudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibds.net/images/files/wumereki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jadozimekozolozevojav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitsatodorova.com/uploadfiles/file/jejebigikezotemixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tannhatviet.vn/upload/files/83035579519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalweek.eu/userfiles/files/59576569416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaibamboorestaurant.ca/phpsites/bard_ford/uploads/file/92998450317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anshan56.cn/userfiles/file/16311108561422154423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ca92428c7---zuzovubevajasijumozokene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/gaxofovo.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_off0000bfed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFED 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 151dadd2ffd53a12030ca42fad098277c9335b783ad3198f8a1d71ff48899885
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB90 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 6f35cd5def05620d246040f683a05bd78b7455718ea49d480d0ca0ee4f80d4e5
font_02_sfnt_off000103a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1