Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 908c194bee7f555d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:08:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e35642a023868b30826327c017901800 SHA-1: dc15e5ca4ba0fef4bf765afa71ec50df5a91e431 SHA-256: 908c194bee7f555d1d1e7a116e2951c142174e5a804ce258e7171c0a53ed74f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing malware. The presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or to serve as a landing page for further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/70020560939.pdf
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/70915926299.pdf
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/gujide.pdf
    • https://yellowstonewildlife.com/nipugisekazapanusidazek.pdf
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a439c587db7---wigobeme.pdf
    • http://kevinmcallisterlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/39231569984.pdf
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcr79bgopht481orb3qv0j9vpb/60465650740.pdf
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/xinamejaw.pdf
    • https://bilegt.mn/userfiles/files/51149247596.pdf
    • http://tl-maskinfabrik.dk/userfiles/file/kosofuvitusisijurugor.pdf
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071de9d2a5eb---xikesugexu.pdf
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/33925983140.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a61a97292e---3115227065.pdf
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/72035414561.pdf
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r77t9pvhmttc1dgrj8hsf231al/32938969224.pdf
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/nuwegoze.pdf
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612929d74e70a---tagasukavimijasaxesuwup.pdf
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4a5feb1c746f8081e0b8fb700380099/21924686585.pdf
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oesmdesco5rtvk59aehtiq0ro6/zumewef.pdf
    • http://cosyromania.com/media/file/3337826887.pdf
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/35047340330.pdf
    • http://duquenne-moteurs.fr/webroot/upload/files/rotogewebomokadonik.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=super+teacher+worksheets+word+search+maker
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68c19e7512b27dc713b6706b9cdd25ca/niwividanepukowebiluw.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_off0000e634.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE634 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe46.bin
3854a2f3025949a43c2a2af29fe607dd3f70fd38dc59f74fdf413737ff75b1ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE46 18848 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012ec7.bin
553cf7be5a801f418f7f7bcff855d873130908fe8ffa9d0694c0b30696659919
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EC7 10888 bytes