Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac856486b187515a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-11 15:04:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 0a38412ead78cdf609d9fb7d63b3188f SHA-1: 616e5c96e31af62845cc22465c1e22fd804318b0 SHA-256: ac856486b187515a3dcd4250233a0a1e66243d05bb8afdebe906d98eb948ce8b
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 0.9907

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prokaryotic+and+eukaryotic+cells+do+all+cells+have+the+same+structure PDF link annotation
    • http://levakov132.ru/userfiles/file/81747555542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/87165632663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/bikilipelukogowizexaduvup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdental.hu/editor_up/fimeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/peregetakulolimifije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baliretreatcenter.com/olabali_ci/media/images/newsfiles/gafojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb12e8dd4d518464b0c61581382a42e7/xezivinijaxuporeguwuzoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83757475799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loscam.com/lib_common/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2433910616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/dotatokaxabezope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hk-delight.com/UploadFiles/file/93011313638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsaneeraus.fi/userfiles/files/41988697292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi.com/contents/files/nezevevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st03.it/userfiles/files/gavawuporox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofizobetemukel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lighthousemacau.com/html_upload/file/lupanijinisurubowipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihappywash.com/uploads/files/202109072115452117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaabrahaoosta.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/varanikoxemizidopabemiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/petovemuwuzibawuseruva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/tinezumifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/tefozebenolam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e02a47d807b9f6c93bf6b2a59a88dcc5/pirazukonagizuvawisotuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourcampuswindow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dexitetiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dabc36229e117080a1fe1f03d2e24752/fopinodojad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lensmam.com/userfiles/file/26931420457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciba.lv/uploaded/file/32812091653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gmpvvvosc9tqd10a2dvb92nuph/17529325599.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_off0000c176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC176 15972 bytes
SHA-256: 63514581409f87a0dbefeae98efeb6c1de5627bb32ce7b178120d4d4f1787647
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA41 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 52ee19eebec3ae5ffc5093475502e0f75324e89d2f75124e416be92f538709ca
font_02_sfnt_off000103bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1