Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56deb252aea37518…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 14:04:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 16a06b7ee11ff87bbe78c8831a25262b SHA-1: 1b2004d8ae6305332b6479af14d77320d9d66f68 SHA-256: 56deb252aea375187ff45c64d4bc566c76cdd5f5483957dbb4f9e1a93bea6d70
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 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=glencoe+algebra+2+chapter+6+resource+masters+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wefirejosotopokapamivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18428125149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/userfiles/file/fatefazunozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/8909339956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koovappadyscb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36235971156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe4e63ce52aac7fc7823babd18b23573/giziduzifitelopeginobaniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf83e2b5207---retoginokaxupadiwimat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/77378163892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b254f00be---10443769515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63ea6680fa25cbc052c48a858977d574/26298200870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/luguxedurami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/54718617324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608088be3b8f1---vapujodafiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/48034561121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatngungoisaoxanh.com/upload/files/39013508332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonlaval.com/userfiles/files/44478257364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522115251359829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfkanacon.org/data/userfiles/files/detaxazuwabixevorofojifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b475f355cbf---16215695123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanniseneca.eu/userfiles/files/kepaxosotasenegif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friulanamarmi.it/images/file/71685948261.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_off0000e2c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C0 18612 bytes
SHA-256: 0f37ca76c6730468c9b247213c1a1f2611a1fde29ddd5c256e3cf646814346e5
font_01_sfnt_off0001131f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1131F 11544 bytes
SHA-256: 30a1437acd34b03d2400ad8e4d1324b0c9d0194972b2104a41dc9ee573f52610
font_02_sfnt_off00012df9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1