Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 853c880dae569822…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:15:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 826875d01634737c9556cce926581b79 SHA-1: e72fe548e27f65f772541d6570ef40d314bb649b SHA-256: 853c880dae569822fb738b08ea60b043daed6af1385d312960b97622344bb438
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that contains a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites. Heuristics indicate it is a link farm on disposable hosting, and ClamAV detected it as a phishing trojan. The ML classifier also strongly flagged it as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab234d01e87cc6199fcffc6f57abdcd4/32904036261.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138917f39444---muroxewov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://printrun.nl/userfiles/files/56710672759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f6270fec3be3aeb84f25b1539c85a26/57325537274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ihanzao.com/userfiles/file/20210905204740_973338284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/dugewizovuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contact-house.com/fckeditor/upload/file/raluzitezasobutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riviera.az/userfiles/file/tiwazefudotategurega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoavily.com/uploads/files/jowegagekakutakenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/53349838130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masukpt2.com/contents/files/zavosaboxinuwova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulns.com/uploadfile/fckedit/file/1630696286bAmK.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/rabegutafixilewisaxasene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profil-metall.de/content/uploads/file/3093656363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofelician.com/userfiles/files/21497601565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shunnasato.com/ruvofizirepawokawakul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613430c83395a---wuliwadaboxigemivuvala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalbau.hu/imagesfiles/befugukajorobagar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilaxlabs.com/userfiles/files/20345629699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/56531024740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7948358565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meghdoothsuzuki.com/uploads/2892371597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxlcd.com/upload/file/70759472037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=chamet+live+video+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000d1ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA05 10472 bytes
SHA-256: b33ee9f2df8c01b6f86422dfd9542762f62614019ea696102e31a1168f298936
font_02_sfnt_off000101ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101CE 17628 bytes
SHA-256: ec1d99b75a4d530bf5982f07486feb25d5acdbdca6b336ab1b39f0921f70f7ba