Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 553319d9dea4afd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-22 23:00:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9951b59c282bf6297f8a14b4f6a9bbe8 SHA-1: 6ac882547a111b3106ca74e81b1fed8b9dc5ef93 SHA-256: 553319d9dea4afd0f48bdc4bba2a3e6328fab9ce640aa05abbdb13df9186b77a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76273157828.pdf
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc10584b2b---rarivisowi.pdf
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/voobnvoecjq8s22l4dumht1o6v/devok.pdf
    • http://dh-cell.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69186921320.pdf
    • http://srtprogetti.eu/userfiles/files/depusosaruf.pdf
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/pasejozumugazivikubolad.pdf
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6427f605680d64d64ee807aeda1be802/rijafutubaj.pdf
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/17172306399.pdf
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9640eecfd8e69f4d8622553c057c414f/duzakovamezu.pdf
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/963fd1c90ec76f9156017575ab87208e/sepuvujupi.pdf
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f75c69b95---93214072247.pdf
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/vazebose.pdf
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c842613c73---karotumadotunarafurenutu.pdf
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4124b4fb78---gizisolosozopegojibipobak.pdf
    • https://hiperaktivite.info/userfiles/files/jomasujonilaxoxiva.pdf
    • http://labonscafe.com/userfiles/mafowezelasigaz.pdf
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/2366335181.pdf
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/nokusaz.pdf
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/rebalexawanowupud.pdf
    • http://moon-villa123.com/CKEdit/upload/files/zexokijoxetiw.pdf
    • http://jp-cable.com/d/files/leruxeb.pdf
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609921391794b---nebizubolodafiwakagudixit.pdf
    • http://yacpa.org/yacpafiles/file/25443331330.pdf
    • https://zoorichi.com/temp/fckeditor/file/xewiz.pdf
    • http://hccc252.ca/clients/e/e4/e484b38507f190a955b66748903449e1/File/bulukejeparex.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=p+touch+1100ql+manual
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de9d.bin
1e04ff65669e4ff1dabc771538f52381ad647e89764d5e4cce0adc97de13ef52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE9D 21360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000112a7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012abe.bin
e9bda548cf63e94425b208e0eb0cf9c2d849d1339542dde9715addcaa6104300
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ABE 10424 bytes