Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 528dfe5a9856f85c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:15:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: f3a694bd9cb73dcd934e958c95956b0f SHA-1: 036ee0f7d2dd8c843e3c03926a94a56b0e4b37a0 SHA-256: 528dfe5a9856f85cf40a5f577a1e5fc7e76b5b851650b581ede72e1ef0614d89
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 0.9992

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://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0b9f08b0be5134c4318938a6f0195c8/68763915589.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210606001347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-15/20210815153531403720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteyuri2.com/userfiles/file/zolovazikusaxaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://market-oborudovanie.ru/upload/file/jedinamuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franciscakeryandcatering.com/clients/61981/File/tosezubusigiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/redabapumivipatodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a153c49e0c6---7901320746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eakqshop.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/72888423899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/83479175853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tis996k86igokht384n2b74ndm/52050883024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guitarenko.fr/img/files/49227407910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cd805cc9216db7180dc2339be5ffa86/bajepavunibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qapoll.com/2015/vat/upload/files/10178758997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d9e95b855---99043256223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66ecf5f8b4---88702284726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vcelari.naceradec.cz/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nojenaborizogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moolans.com/uploads/files/11141532273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f42df78455---60536495774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100bbf559c8e---82556353772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/fifiwepubunaruli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growyourmoney.in/userfiles/files/55025792667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/bofukuvaduzewuvokow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed00ac9e97---45860245227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=autotrophic+mode+of+nutrition+in+plantsPDF 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_off0000bff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d808.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD808 18020 bytes
SHA-256: 0fafb6035ef76bfac8d54166cb0b4445726f7dcd387cc057187a96e4dddea71b
font_02_sfnt_off0001049f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1049F 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 3aa29eacb77fe0bb9c32ba7780143cf710e4e2a970658d81db8b167931020a58