Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73277eb79d8e9941…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 06:01:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 5d37e5db5e0ae8968345bc0bb47a1d0c SHA-1: 6501aae634014f491d6e80ad71b949193fc5cac3 SHA-256: 73277eb79d8e9941d732907a5b06384d50a3594afa229663cdbcd8542e0283df
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9998

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hl7+standards+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f76vhgtu3ptok3d8p6b27rvho7/42932240849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/disekol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mijuvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/38888517738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/2328811395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bc72a0174---webufizoxobodakagakolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d386898c717---32886704150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da31cf057081e4ab5a68d40ddc7a5fc8/76305029606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6f1b5c516---limifekesab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/49224537953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/58547386910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/vafoxoxorese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091671383534---91292992284.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/65015149738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d25f92c5797d4736b3220ea2735e4765/kozuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cd847c486d507f3b4ebdac1a28b5f38/fosogarage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file/%5C/73952691119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ecb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB5 5076 bytes
SHA-256: cfaa410bf79d6f139987391411e1e7efe30f53dab70828f5d6100dd3e764d28b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0C 12364 bytes
SHA-256: 6406c9ef6e79be634e3c3c483dd72ae29a22f26b0d2c049c2e0d7f9392490874