Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a56658ac606a0e03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-08-08 08:35:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c4c53f1ef969d927aeec694e1428fcc1 SHA-1: 77409a4c467dd59e68ce8be8df3a6af835f10f3b SHA-256: a56658ac606a0e03a9573efb4e12fbae2492988031bfeec5d9622dc9fa9c2e76
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/18222217941.pdf
    • http://gaskinfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b798c9f9e2af69c3a5b950a06e4ade8e/File/17339395434.pdf
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ea85acinr8vk4l2820mt3ee2e/27347072406.pdf
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/nekajonefadovobofifurobo.pdf
    • http://king-tableware.com/uploads//files/202108052051501108.pdf
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/60301692714.pdf
    • http://xn--b1adcbbai1bezln.xn--p1ai/content/File/95860198940.pdf
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210604_E0D1A106535C1A97.pdf
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4834e75f72---reminoganaxat.pdf
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/dukob.pdf
    • http://ildongwire.com/userfiles/file/fonanedaruluzukananuwi.pdf
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba13b324c4c---59201319144.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/52987936477.pdf
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cddef854e11055f41137a0c885ba7ebd/63003934915.pdf
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b5f3c43b6d145c240357629b47f8448/zilawozir.pdf
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44ab2a2148---tubaduxotuzosopitogupi.pdf
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/terupuzujapabawikatif.pdf
    • https://kheops-so.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47374798107.pdf
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/18293817819.pdf
    • http://summithigh75.com/clients/867147/File/62927811292.pdf
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f99555b0e3b---segiwulaxowivifudidolat.pdf
    • http://sonarkella.com/userfiles/file/sanewo.pdf
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6a247ffc7---tatazas.pdf
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab622a568574c8b5e4898cab178c8db/tilukimebutibi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+enlarge+something+with+scale+factor+1%2F3
    • 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_off0000f0b6.bin
ce1d1f2ca1fcf0e37bf866c30f3ed468ab2a3e2d6504154c4e1856650196538c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B6 17308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011de5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000135fc.bin
37b3e84ecca69dd0180bbf95659784a2fc7e8fdd4046862f78861bd19a2fc4ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135FC 11116 bytes