Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6595a03613c03ac7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-24 10:10:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 89d341c3389c552c6accab6473f30b6f SHA-1: 2eb19c89eec72d787112295fed60d740520956bb SHA-256: 6595a03613c03ac71563fdcf39ba9afdade785017a430a96197992c9feb2e270
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to disposable hosting and compromised WordPress uploads, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution vector.

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=launch+easydiag+apk
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141c88ac915b---naluvitajol.pdf
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents/files/41640702717.pdf
    • http://studiobaliva.eu/userfiles/files/73150671442.pdf
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/gikalawidarorexunasu.pdf
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83902985391.pdf
    • https://theshamrockpublecco.it/file/jipixolimeni.pdf
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/gujopidakenaru.pdf
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/pigojugufaxugojixa.pdf
    • http://miet-boot.ch/images/uploadedimages/file/jumajetaxalovutuxitege.pdf
    • https://kochitaxirental.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28022660679.pdf
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/nunamorejofazavafubovulat.pdf
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3i6cut7pid2dddieq1kc443khr/gasitozofigavojipivet.pdf
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59f9e97d5b3cc5b2ae46f389df27c758/surobelijolilakudanug.pdf
    • http://sozopolihills.com/userfiles/file/guwopivud.pdf
    • http://larrysiegellaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sadutifi.pdf
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents/files/vapetixa.pdf
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/razinusumugiromumupa.pdf
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87a399a90a45dfb6674d257681bbd051/83758114845.pdf
    • http://soleilboo.com/images/uploads/files/47563286643.pdf
    • http://menifee.hanasushichoice.com/uploads/files/bagowuwekewum.pdf
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/381e30a131346c2cc860bad8d9316a5e/48252457702.pdf
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/lurasokewalotox.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_off0000c394.bin
13ac824edb16f8f31317ad166980d6735439f2f9d55e9029d881177add968f0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC394 18156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2c7.bin
4766a62ce694da19f4a9a914cae79232e9bd3f9e5ff3be37ccebe26d050f4829
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C7 10692 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010b09.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B09 16792 bytes