Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 592e413a2c3dbc39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:05:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: a311a3a91d2982031ccc6f65a6616a94 SHA-1: dd303f2f72366a47d9949779a3e609c1a2089f7d SHA-256: 592e413a2c3dbc3918e1a4b674b9b1822dfa9f737ead2ee8bc38c3b4b085f240
164 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+reduce+size+of+pdf+mac PDF link annotation
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/larenorudumaxevog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.premiumtrade.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69469676173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609c078c2e745---45250274774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/4076249402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infoegrafica.com/userfiles/files/96831841466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rasathantrananotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fakuxafunukumuwokibovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63e6ed1098---12563924662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/36426283765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/23884098331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b240d6cec8849577d507c05d096af290/viroxoxulujibaturijim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nacf99ffjtjg21fv7104c08lve/20770143798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carscaso.com/js/upload/files/lozuxakotinuwukiwobemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/217281ed7d0b387a8486a0381bde6eed/9488250423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919e893c073---miwojafepifiwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b41c26ce758---34350370110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daquin-ferriere.fr/userfiles/file/21285835659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/bakalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/bobamiribodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/mibubotukamobufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c0177ace10f809eebb874b64ae86c3b/31135292553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ae1889630573766b83db91c9134c25/lasizademolejisim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/detalugiperonota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landpas.pl/upload/file/68636443145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c35eebb7a---26481909081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmytour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210704_A976A09C4D28321F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/88811757135.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_off0000ee16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE16 18764 bytes
SHA-256: 1f06fe8e13fd786d2e66162de9986d3efa3a7ab87929cf0b7c4e7f43eace88c8
font_01_sfnt_off00011eda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDA 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 393449fcb8c21745919ef26eeabc4ed1c61bd84645c16c6dcda1c1edfd291d82
font_02_sfnt_off00013811.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13811 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1