Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 973602c18f034afd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 17:33:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 02dfb87c48e34e3f9596c13be1326758 SHA-1: 0a26af5847ab149a3bc51107f3ea0bc88bf2c499 SHA-256: 973602c18f034afd13ced55550db7f9f8a2a49fd6ac9b7dd29915ff327866915
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farms on compromised or disposable hosting suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=backdrops+pro+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3pom1nfqm3lfc8r6osvucvs907/ditame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/28052702343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matricula.netlandschool.cl/files/81363463958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97240172850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalybm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631375195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client/imagesfile/dosojivusosukewuzirulirej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psyforyou.nl/upload/fckeditor/file/6394900201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a69559c46aea4ca61a697cfe6e7b081/tarejamaveravoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614286d2450b3---22761252541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcp-ranstadt.us/files/10758848665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megaprestige.ru/uploads/files/30586583549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kipia-nn.ru/userfiles/file/64909815571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novsport.com/content/File/dutexiwafibufuwejupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aaebajlcgx.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/xajinotivofanazozur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totalblissbeauty.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56365857766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalltechnik-kutschi.at/88786802998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5254caa7b668834499859fef6a35b207/sufamejub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-oilfieldequip.ru/d/files/4924416429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/xomupubiritamosexudetag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613619c639fb6---mexirebefifegadireda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dogwoodagility.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kigijeripexugemifasokel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scsytech.com/upload/files/78080076281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b85b9c94082a529aaec7c8b33a90f078/95575538572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58efbf52d83bd250af26a30b312931da/makixejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog/file/funuzedunereju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownfallschurch.com/uploads/files/mevorafaf.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b4e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4E4 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 5d5a3d9163fc177a5c5e1d4d6eafa28d9a59b2a9d6880e75c82dd55571d3ca11
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC4E 15076 bytes
SHA-256: cb37d45c02411ce58ed4cc54ed4c89051beb332d1afcb750380bdcd620ccfa43
font_02_sfnt_off0000f190.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF190 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1