Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 578bdf1530a79071…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-08-05 12:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cc756062a727f131a9161ca8ddd7d740 SHA-1: 6fee24394ff2f3d25c9d6468c6458129cac43bd3 SHA-256: 578bdf1530a79071523aac4cfa53f00225becf0b2b5bb7a12565683e23a32896
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of link farms and compromised CMS uploads points to a tactic of directing users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://alltechsro.cz/files/65530184017.pdf
    • https://sca-kc.com/scauserfiles/files/40129169655.pdf
    • https://alibabaoman.com/basefile/alibabaomancom/files/54313890918.pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8013e8868---76150671609.pdf
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/bufajanevatikozibegenare.pdf
    • https://e-uchebnici.com/img/file/81516789863.pdf
    • https://qpshouse.com/upload/image/file/38436957063.pdf
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/28572487203.pdf
    • http://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/72606868162.pdf
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/6612931054.pdf
    • http://camonetinternational.com/files/file/zavalivotuzofaxu.pdf
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/0809832675.pdf
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7df5ee2e0---30434233211.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tps33ufosv94dn5hhegaenhjkh/51974234881.pdf
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n7b3rjib3ifri9dnbtss99t5f0/jubedajofivevebubagobutel.pdf
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/60582147960.pdf
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tulamuxozesutesepekodak.pdf
    • http://school15-tyumen.ru/f/nejunepizazovadarenabado.pdf
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/orusj3jbfed677dqghvkhr6lj5/14175410088.pdf
    • http://netpost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/rolowutifuxexop.pdf
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0a1b3863cf---piseradapaposexomopawuwos.pdf
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0ca29ec66c2896f1020700d846d053/74225635406.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+de+normalidad+resueltos+pdf
    • 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_off0000e14c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE14C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f95e.bin
1e561972edc7d024af5af7ebb47e11303b5ce9a1d6e5ac7d7e8f3f5bcb51edad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF95E 18672 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001290c.bin
91614fb7c2b011d30f00e92a79d6d9e8a0de49fc668f69c0e365f904b908ea41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1290C 10992 bytes