Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f46c1e509b5bb15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-06-13 00:52:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 7ff97a4432ba9887a6997f207b98decd SHA-1: 9ca9798c139e0bee78958b4b3c99518fe3c91f8e SHA-256: 2f46c1e509b5bb157804cd3a4f6a40f11f93f864649e98c9887a4f3ed0513fb6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 0.9998

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=stream+stranger+things+season+3 PDF link annotation
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bedelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872613ea254---34411662298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87ab5ec11b---97013249468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/74898945232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/julisezugupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608014ea87123---wokudoduzutonizore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.css-jp.com/upfile/files/2021/06/11/sipixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966ed98100e---kamero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1cfdda92ae---92156543386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/68429079437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d937981f0---89079595633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/94304520464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4288f07658---pedalowexibewemezijepuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ccd47dcf9---42365207909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14744e3907---kinetobadawekolilivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA83 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 9e43726d744ad066edd9c6b9f93de81d3da41656e4ffad859a101d23ce0fa6a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000fba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA2 6624 bytes
SHA-256: bcbbb7216e5af8c1295dd69c6eddf6a8fa0c4cdbe8f0c0a08ae3aad56e929293
font_02_sfnt_off00011198.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11198 11656 bytes
SHA-256: 9fb8b26e35a0547c2f8af8313c30e60a2fa9e1fd41b3dce3343c5f11fddce4bb
font_03_sfnt_off000138ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138ED 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f