Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b56d666182f23f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.2 KB Created: 2021-05-28 21:50:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 2b036d3082364054be517c923818fa79 SHA-1: 9eff844ab9d1427e99b6dd0e5599c7bb8e4e5e91 SHA-256: 9b56d666182f23f31f50114c1f7bf228b309693ce051862d3dcf86b9ef548015
156 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 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=guyton+y+hall+repaso+de+fisiolog%25C3%25ADa+m%25C3%25A9dica+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/nekusesawevuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g0b0o33m1o8k3hnkimp2fc2e3l/83994585422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75eodqbhbgc82koqpue50geaqq/jesogemezeteni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f69187257---woxovoneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/tukegoxeluradutawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080eaa08a20c---rokiximutidapozoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/99867366055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/19020073082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/49424097939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/26074688175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/69375346826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f925cbdd58---luvepunapuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b0abf36d8---vukaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1a4f00d4d1e3c2a09c149b5a105216c/50957902742.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c653.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC653 5900 bytes
SHA-256: 332cda27473aed54f07bb592cc1a37710d0970056c7527466132ae4c459c4b74
font_01_sfnt_off0000da02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA02 10908 bytes
SHA-256: d0b945de261e242841eb3a49cf0349aec5b6dab86efd1d541a95009003b7203d

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