Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 573d985f26ba6961…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 18:47:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b7750a30e790dabae40b420d4d00eaad SHA-1: 8c70588d1f957b9a676b7d66332407e34bc3ddb3 SHA-256: 573d985f26ba6961707d9878674489002cdc0119a9cd50935b0315de0dbdac9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm on disposable hosting indicates a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://muszempilla.com/files/file/joxuropu.pdf
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af5b53b47cbb7d710a56329587c4e4f8/pitutonifurebe.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609844ae6fd09---ximejajuwezojabejuwavipo.pdf
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210604091828425.pdf
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/523cc6cade7de252ecd889bc2cf78790/12869856324.pdf
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2f196c9cffdca1effa17c6db3786211/65138656591.pdf
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/857f5182131e5df558f35098513487f3/wuliwarijijisozixasan.pdf
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a5b176d08---20530729056.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3e7c9f1f1---vaxufarimaw.pdf
    • http://gramercy-grand.ru/files/file/teguwaledax.pdf
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/9155250550.pdf
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/motuwovopetefefadugumode.pdf
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/91269986860.pdf
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/31563946361.pdf
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/77160635415.pdf
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rigojapisofurasitu.pdf
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/49877853669.pdf
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pgjkls8cdltklaqf6rbnohbdkl/36714313138.pdf
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083621a66e11---tosugotisobewukikokaxi.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5j4mf3gv8g96h72ht78uejvnv1/fudakubasaretaten.pdf
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/jivixus.pdf
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8lka23c5850j0hlrtj8fs2fei/98060322575.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=dell+poweredge+2970+manual
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c138.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC138 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d94a.bin
652a2e2bd0060e1cd007787612971b5441d64f3cc26516dde86103603e02dff2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD94A 16880 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010556.bin
02abb07177824c5165b1df9c6a4451359b789968ad14267ebc0ec6b45a11e7a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10556 11024 bytes