Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fb58a6df58b441b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 11:34:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 63a9a064547d3e5ffa6e6e9bd25aa573 SHA-1: 49fc59230b588821facd4ea05a818974f02a9c82 SHA-256: 1fb58a6df58b441b343863f18fe0fea54a5de10b9651848a963b4ce4e57590c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a link farm strategy, and the 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' firings confirm its malicious nature. The document likely serves as a lure to direct users to malicious websites for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cool+apps+for+rooted+android+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://asacnfservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suxipamalewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onderdurdu.com/upload/ckfinder/files/45736984684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/wejazibozanetumimaduretan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettelhaiphong.me/data/dulieu/files/19064967100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/25386596761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a114034548---90488708500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otoform.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dalotuvixewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklima.net/upload/ckfinder/files/10399333532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialgarden.ro/userfiles/file/45651003012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giorgimpianti.com/userfiles/file/26605837350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28733369696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613888934f2fe---60660007616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/717db9101d7dde91aeb9de36baeb793d/pidolimufuvanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hflchw.com/upload/file/91219402150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/84115609979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.examnotice.in/uploads/files/pibosumowolibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viessmannboilers.ca/fck_upload/file/muxufoxapiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenkochaya.com/user_data/ckfinder/files/82237408351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elstar.ru/uploads/files/zapevepodorot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevenhillsgroup.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39323272951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elvirajogsi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zebenikafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87448185014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/kapixizoxunumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cautrucpalang.vn/webroot/img/files/10947579942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/8967084487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagominum.com/contents/files/56202808655.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_off0000d62a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD62A 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 8f75fe7ecdd98d1263b482acb910a68523146ec9e831569b2fbbbf4c23374e98
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10677 17412 bytes
SHA-256: f92da0987dc18230fcb6115dec39ba23d1618ff69a487986e60a60bea2345fee