Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 561a6d9be7bfec96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.4 KB Created: 2021-08-21 07:14:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 667843ac7c1c6481e4aa9fb237052075 SHA-1: fc78db9c8026e1a5cb88bb20c544ea9b1b192e46 SHA-256: 561a6d9be7bfec96f2f1b0803549c2ce70ca77a6d7848addc8c3e2b862ba9fa1
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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+5+qualities+of+a+good+listener PDF link annotation
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aec77fec36e9804b366fb9f121d866ba/56065649569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ad259d894---41170633593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zagazzo.com/userfiles/file/85651942058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24354426155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandchainfamilyfoundation.org/clients/85333/File/51062707681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/ratifitobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8c8250ba9---puterelosebimipolodimel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techielingo.com/fck_uploads/files/fabakebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwvictory.com/uploads/files/53170841964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/walilosapefadut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hintzfamilyreunion.com/clients/1/12/12a2788c5de59b93c87e4eff35998d4f/File/18468464614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c196c403d05---xisalizulepulora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f918af801---7488509759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izr.fr/files/57151018796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f00893e590a---53761205667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776e491be22---49073487642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/22468663392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fab35edf93---49335222656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07e42ded7c15b0a11c8f7673a669dcd8/buwotegazurepiduva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/el7043l7h9vg4rch1oqn385f90/81757941789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161132d2706346---35039173308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160f7b5c69ee0b---14856171357.pdfIn 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://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_off00012ed9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ED9 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 6da19f419f25a7295be811a35343c714fd08557ed716ea06c3e20e6ed7164eb5
font_01_sfnt_off000147ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147EE 17704 bytes
SHA-256: e1a4de490caf3ed7d296d33c2a4e61d6671ea9b3ee36eadea0478bff6c504450
font_02_sfnt_off000175ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x175AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1