Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 559dc3587f4f72f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-06-11 11:16:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: bab731bb925b49b45010b37bb9c8f829 SHA-1: c743b8dfb2ce2711a65b091fed2976cd00c00ae1 SHA-256: 559dc3587f4f72f35313fca88e09221786de045348cd2a79b4f396716f828cf8
164 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 and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=african+mega+praise+mix+mp3+download PDF link annotation
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4998808cd59494aa1c342b0a7bc17982/3090365733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec20bc7b97---pulunewojoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/91714255480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083aaf570154---5824124496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/5608432623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0t4vvk8eu47fv9h4nbs4706r3h/giwepapagiwodibabogukeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d17c138e4a659e9f82bcd58fd38fff2b/jugiwuzirizosoguworidux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c93b162f71---50012789897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/saec0gkohsuejfljfnpvhkb3pa/98042763884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ik447nsrm34lkpqok4qc4rbsh3/1557473616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/sobalepenipoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4a4271fb4---82300538158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xekigorazebalazog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b29c948682c48f4000a63e3df8c766ac/gisunenulasije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/05/24/file/20210524_160610_185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e68b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE68B 5788 bytes
SHA-256: 4a5b574c6ebb0040cad838cde4d46316e942888166301bd4d06d94e38f59395d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3C 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 09ce6af406f7254c4711f50372c88ea0160063c0bccd90a34dc4da4df59758fc
font_02_sfnt_off00011dd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DD6 11476 bytes
SHA-256: c22df4bdd2e9ed43acb11735f58716dd9df7337c1a74b082463535d9c782b61c
font_03_sfnt_off0001457f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1457F 19500 bytes
SHA-256: dc35a705124fe9a6e35fad1917500ce8b406bbbc57bdea487e86c2139ef589c0