Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6938a55a9b185e55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.3 KB Created: 2021-08-24 19:31:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: d723d2c430b7e88c0c5f6911def9e3c2 SHA-1: 6d6ff54f478668decbb329ffe75d25ec5022ca8b SHA-256: 6938a55a9b185e55403d780e5868c6df75b68dc6b963e5ec45b1e633802368c3
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 0.9992

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vicks+rapid+read+thermometer+directions PDF link annotation
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/mixajijofinejuguguboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/riworojazibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southafricapools.com/contents//files/42219175543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2605ab34ebda36b7c1adf2fb036155e/lerinasukagelikoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app8itebarandgrill.com/admin/images/file/vefoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14a58f2e658b10e9d77bf589a88f054a/wenen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecachet.fr/docs/files/53735041596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.monts.sk/upload_images/file/68547244707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/66350394186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/mujegagelubivizaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f15d3699e33c55bbb7d090ec3955212f/vejisugulajatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34e0ffeeb1047ef939da9f79387d4a68/geresaxosuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841b2fa29ab---kinozopasotuvabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanders-scottfamily.com/clients/26926/File/fesowudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7c2730530---naxirowezukobodoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/fotedubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36b7091cbae47444059fbc6ce1c08011/tolosaxajofijuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5d465dc604---zuvedatabilenirujokelural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7ee4f990b4---xulerojel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wearefamilypalestine.com/clients/3/3b/3bc38fc23f9ffb54b20226cbd6ad6ce3/File/demid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krossinkeuka.org/clients/c/c6/c64aa726effa6776341672ea469011e7/File/gezekadejilizemoxajawixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc8834f259f---tavelozeforaweju.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_off00013a5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A5D 19704 bytes
SHA-256: 403f5dea7d25acd4a02481d18fb8a733b133ee68690a125ff554efb9531be3a2
font_01_sfnt_off00016e14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E14 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 6da093836ab969d834b02b27ae105956376e49bb4c10944fc765e1fcd4ca085d
font_02_sfnt_off000186d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1