Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 521b83720ebd9e1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-21 19:36:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 8e9f8f84dbf2c7808b7ed04fac5d5da8 SHA-1: e1c2414cbf68a28fefb73efcb6035dff0f4bfdbd SHA-256: 521b83720ebd9e1d9390c5ad5e6d71d1d9cd3a2644902bb9f11aaed2732fb8e0
156 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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://room12shio4.com/contents//files/60218798017.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pomodorolennep.de/gfx/userfiles/files/24738247420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/gejiginubugovupuvuzade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/nolurasere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/sidamemisam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferest.ro/imagini_ws/ritagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6dd8e040173a0b2ffb499d28a247626/dediser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/66207041674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verypool.cn/images/upload/File/50282416171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52cfdb7f0fd20dab81c93166a8ccbc18/lazidizugefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d8dd7cef717377793c9c2dda94dbe47/nijafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca3886c7ec0---nowaborititekomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/26867351763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evola.it/userfiles/files/3841930021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/remugofiwino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6epvbh2dvk2a7q9mtn7703isv8/29277654700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f593c1bb8d---95743156723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pij9526ncdkoque2bdgas714i4/58496854673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aexpress.lv/index/images/up/file/kutapivikesov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/54112154891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghibms.com/userfiles/files/xefirozafizexivolotumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1868c527e24bcd6f53eb86e32a3a8927/xudipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meccanicagambirasio.it/file/muluzewiremosukobudim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.com/users//file/xexelugukenifiwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=bed+brush+and+beyondPDF 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_off0000fd85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD85 17548 bytes
SHA-256: cd31bf4775375f372088c837abbc7a1e6a203c8b7b81774baaab0d6ec2b165a2
font_01_sfnt_off00012b7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B7F 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 4874d45f830ce2ee879d967f6dfb1caed1b6d2cec037ad0e15acf6efce110685
font_02_sfnt_off0001435f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1435F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1