Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 578bc74c8f961aed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-06-20 16:26:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 47f5b95be1332b137da3ee0374dfb972 SHA-1: 3be59776fdfbd326f43032c3f1483560eceba3d2 SHA-256: 578bc74c8f961aeda0da0d3158dcee6f8198891568e690b31e6bff37211a323b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9998

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=good+skyblock+server PDF link annotation
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f28c2dfd37c6a7b6ad44160778ad9da/55193997744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a6aee36d7---63634627656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fb2d3678497a9dbff1e5616c56e4583/mupijugatimikaxuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9253b1886f17f9a6c378ae6cb14a30b2/34345846913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lksevumckl9q42jvq4f8v5uu4b/lukivibofetixox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/73782801778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e89a304a9---dinefomiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/relupinosetewigakilutiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/24936394043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e93b5bb67---tosederodupaboxurolowuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87ac58ca9c1f1a1dc52442b3144d0141/vifilepowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb3f42fa50---misolovugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2a6992317---nomovekifomobeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b5ef442fd2839513832180fdf29ad68/58383978352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faronuwuvevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/61493959286.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B1 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 5363fad90ae2bc1b3b9aadf93ad91ccfc16b9df8235157321ee8de385be36922
font_01_sfnt_off00010542.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10542 11948 bytes
SHA-256: ac98c5c2dd98b41e5f5043f871f45eb813817703c51d9776de91f472588143b1