Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71d47162c5e906f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-27 10:30:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0e7c384595d9aba065498ca1bafc7df4 SHA-1: b3befa47b317ae01b23588d7211ba8306a5f7d9e SHA-256: 71d47162c5e906f07d5277a0b572d7aa238a1f725a3e25c8be68eb2802d725b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised Content Management Systems (CMS) or utilize disposable hosting. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of creating link farms on potentially untrustworthy infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/guzopude.pdf
    • http://hyunsin.net/userfiles/file/doganadibo.pdf
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/zegexupejopolojirerow.pdf
    • https://hyosung-gulf.com/uploads/file/58707726447.pdf
    • https://dadesigning.com/daduserfiles/files/sigubumaderuvewemakisop.pdf
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/teragu.pdf
    • http://canshu.dlzj.net/upload/files/20210922205802708123.pdf
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f87ffb99f4---69595807723.pdf
    • http://saringkarnwood.com/UserFiles/file/nixojiko.pdf
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146d9ee89c8a---79466189063.pdf
    • http://hbisan.com/userfiles/file/jimoro.pdf
    • https://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84439376965.pdf
    • https://yk-tech.com.tw/ckfinder/uploads/ckfiles/files/lejazujegud.pdf
    • http://klwas.org/userfiles/images/file/mogagaku.pdf
    • http://www.asap-recruitment.net/upload/file/93181600038.pdf
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31336481703.pdf
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/winivagupoleza.pdf
    • https://svarovanijelinek.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwofak.pdf
    • http://xindeshiye.com/uploadfile/file///2021091312462880.pdf
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/11522629282.pdf
    • http://china-guolin.com/filespath/files/20210908154545.pdf
    • https://mtmhomeschool4art.com/mycms/uploadedimages/editorUploadedImages/file/73627119247.pdf
    • http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/65581153956.pdf
    • http://lagunarent.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nivodepawurolowezu.pdf
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613faf21987b5---fajiwazokolib.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=official+guide+toefl+itp+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_off0000b51a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB51A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd2c.bin
9ca0c46e53b3531b37c5ea3fb30c2e15b589df1af75b9a001e00ad68b5798398
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD2C 17856 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb75.bin
58cca7071c8781e776fdf5c244525a87eddf474abd48d79666137759e872ea46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB75 10548 bytes