Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 583eaf43dc256c3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:49:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 5c8ea2a4a8b71bcc4cfa608c7148b7ec SHA-1: 8dc17d9b6be1e752091abe209192197c53ddaee9 SHA-256: 583eaf43dc256c3f12c7367a675b32a786b2902cb9ac1a507eb796973065963e
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 0.9952

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://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161219ebe361e3---nibigasudogowonavo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79566891212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/tasowifawikazegasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8e0b7d3b63999500c7f3a5b649ccce0/21761735603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/tofufolun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detaycopymatbaa.com/userfiles/file/jegavovukabonoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b852f21ba21---84220764826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nt3a2s4dkalqom79ciu1m262p0/70881238101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/69027314373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suativisamsungtaihanoi.net/upload/files/89592965378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da8c73ebeb---99284923855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/kokivubowijujivewobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa0b44c48bf---55661456074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtglass.pl/upload/file/pikiraxawawudunawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/98787430597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1uqlvjhaupe1bciovsvvrf44m7/68793996311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79k8dj5bp2foucc20koerhcrl4/xosabelafifelovokid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/pejijoxakinaxopovesibozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platcometals.com/images/file/7846515910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0680a8834c9765cac1358f772e6539e/26149176311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rawoctane.com/uploads/file/46407177662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuvuongcorp.com/luutru/files/xilipazetaveti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc8c8815788---vevisudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab53ffa08ea---42613770819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f60bbc18d6---31141076204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=current+protocols+in+nucleic+acid+chemistry+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dcd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD4 18596 bytes
SHA-256: 3d0a8cb581be2d6fb3ff0516be75afdd49b01f0e93a42940853591017bd0a12a
font_01_sfnt_off00010d84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D84 1956 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6ae1e753a8d7df236fc41bf95c34ae8e0356d5eab5a5ca04704bab0fb6c0b6
font_02_sfnt_off0001169c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1169C 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 30a7daf7dd4343d5b29e6391d9c86965778717203bb3c4caa049aebb99c84554
font_03_sfnt_off00013068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13068 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1