Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2c59b5c35189909…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 22:03:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7fa7d7d4d386b38169e5d536f0308fb7 SHA-1: 0118eafae8281d28431891ce268e4344fff43b73 SHA-256: b2c59b5c3518990952f7585de686de2d1d8daf401ecd4c5b748480ffeae550fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 0.9912

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://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb730e7f33---59625650555.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/43426353154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63eom8vp74a6d6knc9hf23i0b0/79835938109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logicamail.it/draft/media/posivede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/manifejixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/xasibuzeranoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42899702180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtl.in/uploads/userfiles/file/file/3484737256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130b0cbda30a---kunigunuzen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43707604853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/fexisajosavowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0abf2e743cae1d318542c8f2e59281/43858035384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desense.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/wipatinixogesidex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.agcontraincendios.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86628739603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japan-railpass.info/images/blog/file/75530481956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seltec.io/images/uploads/files/xagawopubotusoxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucchetta.net/userfiles/files/64797574758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabouligrill.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61059138352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opsir.eu/files/file/48592075090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinismbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/malir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a21b20011f---82297004708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xpeedon.net/userfiles/file/20210902140850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulamanis.com/contents/files/xejuvidorutudawexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazomotor.com/allinone/file/fuvodifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekt-dom.pl/designhome/admin/userfiles/file/ziroseragemakirevofejite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruvaxesenuvogowife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=airdrop+like+app+for+androidPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ec66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC66 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 4b4b7f7e1ef8ee4acca6c21f8f1a63ddd8eb0a2a1b0f8685af95577eb568b970
font_01_sfnt_off00010398.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10398 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 73cbd966a490f9581dd4f8cfb29da76fe58d82d438902bde75469e8ebf40cf79
font_02_sfnt_off00013276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13276 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1