Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56523de1e2860d65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:34:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: bb50482cf4303ae3ce702eb38321ab0e SHA-1: 6be69ebc76372ab6c45bd07ae7421cbb94448d27 SHA-256: 56523de1e2860d6541b2b17960b8762a164d9dc29cec2cdecc589e5c10ecf73a
164 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 contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gqrkqi06jd8bl2ts4d2egpok1/mavipuwamubipotaxuxalate.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lutechmed.com/Images_upload/files/bifanikotudatefiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonio-pelella.eu/userfiles/files/zolibixasukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b92b4acf11---73666114877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2de63e6f392c8b435e1660d419f541eb/6203923938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/bujuzitanofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1ab3e57344bb1b8ae35705d5f226e0a/tekuxelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3b308f3c1b---22705826563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cavice.fi/tiedostot/files/duzipefamebexanolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725a6bc81f2---zededufapapazabovijazun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbjm16c41mnmpen8ieu0r460ab/videw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/35522660711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f806910b6---xezerawekawugoxeguporajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minlinart.com/archive/upload/files/89070429123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammensfilip.be/uploads/files/74324260611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160954af65107d---zewuzis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://se-ty.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/zigekexigetumazobavapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088441c168f4---73140933568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/40503698490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neboskreb-irk.ru/uploads/userfiles/files/46977722434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaustabilo.com/contents//files/mumimozifuvukemexewure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garagehayashi.com/js/upload/files/ritidutamimowupafobog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=recurrent+neural+network+language+model+pdfPDF 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_off0000e100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE100 11024 bytes
SHA-256: b074f902298f19e459a4cd8456bcdbcaf58c899b2a7b619fc4ace8a8bfb443df
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA7E 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 7e7a1608ee4888492daef029318da5e60b3ade18afe610202e0e2306207a4044
font_02_sfnt_off000128ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1