Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 756aa3412a60c5c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-08-28 20:51:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c1452052124385bad482202bd2657132 SHA-1: ebbe1e07ecb78a6c741761e3c25bde490238b64f SHA-256: 756aa3412a60c5c11cfc743775727f7e9eedc454863ff89ccbb4fd0a68ed2b49
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics, along with the ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The 'SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND' heuristic firing also indicates suspicious command execution attempts within the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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 http://peterpan1996.it/userfiles/files/41497195109.pdf In macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://lazerom.pro/media/file/mevejisejiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argekaucuk.com/nbg/upload/files/96128046194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25799686fd8c6ec9cddda6e7c0c05eac/kezuworole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b04f344543---18911121620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aed50afe28---15533440035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160997d0a759da---64459557528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa2a9c098cf---milipajaw.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/jozupijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6c20a39ee---lowezesejonikasafovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/xafurutipakonufazuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ytdrive.com/CKEdit/upload/files/89649383348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/gepoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767a663e6b9---bexuxunalazewiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galerie45.com/userfiles/file/zulasoderuzevazinero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/wafufufuxesutizenexud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijtm.in/userfiles/file/25459046169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3ahh4b8mg3grm2eu1omn34qrd/50577642372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resurrection-life.net/userfiles/files/wojivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1590100289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/551151019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607783aa08d03---dezedakunivemaxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=dressing+gown+tie+curlsPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB874 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d086.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD086 15316 bytes
SHA-256: 6ac45a49f98925a7d2ff970d2373aab7679eeaf986f5f6ddf0ee7026e3a3a578
font_02_sfnt_off0000f711.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF711 10428 bytes
SHA-256: f13e9be9aaa45759459b219d2a21e3b76330a0db3a7858d094f0a84cbd2cd765