Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55986e4376c0926f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 18:37:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: c8394a530533bc1970b012007d2dc7e2 SHA-1: 23e304b45666322860377cc771c87f1f28895e38 SHA-256: 55986e4376c0926f6e49483641c4a19f16e5d091768978d9bfbcb672d91871a4
176 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 and uses an image-based lure. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 1 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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 http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pibodapovitenijine.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/gadexum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaukitchen.com/uploads/files/78441051366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/fetaneziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vleek.com/uploads/files/zegeritulezita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/94295802391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/18577203979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762e37aa82b---48326373091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607169ff34ccf---16074956785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c56d5f67210516be541fda59ddfe1766/mubomoxexajup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valve-toho.com/userfiles/file/jefosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb67999b81---88756153207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f34b7c021---mujasupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/tidubevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/84395284329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/volebalixanugapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///20498041484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/23916927012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbondcorten.com/attachment/file/1d975ef808229d8648ff35023f222e9b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/wadun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ru97u0cm01hfc7d96fsfi7amr5/44394870530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ukpgth2k6esphbdr8cfcmo5bf/nebujatojasozugibufufezed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mauspro.net/upload/files/35197895991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=gross+and+net+income+worksheetPDF 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_off0000b518.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB518 14340 bytes
SHA-256: f9749a7d60f2cda5e79d3f08ffc33c7a83c4f0118339aa11d7dec69df983ca97
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C0 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 70cf6d837d66213aa729d9c0335d8aa8d1ea9ec9907b767279c20681a6c33c3c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF196 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1