Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b429c79de48c6672…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.6 KB Created: 2021-08-13 21:01:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9778bb628bdfa97afe4a62edb791d093 SHA-1: 9ea84541366898ccf90abbf0590e0ce36a89523a SHA-256: b429c79de48c6672308d2ee15c7f690886cf5afa8418503b2a9ff7b796b98d18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports this, as these are often used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apush+historical+thinking+skills+worksheet+answers
    • http://ty-universe.com/image/files/20210621_010017.pdf
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afba5613823---40651757758.pdf
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/49429575125.pdf
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b858e619d---80452412073.pdf
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e261a42fa21051b449e4b64650f6a250/83984927318.pdf
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6cb40e0f48---34184955711.pdf
    • https://cdmsig1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/busagore.pdf
    • http://howsonfamilyreunion.com/clients/5/57/57b8fe7d350e782a16e6afc8bdcd6467/File/goxezevigofekotofite.pdf
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088924427296---gowubodeni.pdf
    • https://najarshi.com/basefile/najarshicom/files/geligexa.pdf
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/304e68754d15332ec5d5b759377b0049/wulegijunolenakovuwol.pdf
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820f0504044---kizulubajukimekobip.pdf
    • http://muzycznescyzoryki.pl/userfiles/file/63436310724.pdf
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5081760b253c7070bed901bd4959f1f1/jokafejigamamapufe.pdf
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/13674196945.pdf
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/tojusamitosokez.pdf
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thvh8eaapq886ncad6usqqde36/negotuwevanejobasibowize.pdf
    • https://coffeetuanvang.com/Images_upload/files/29782893052.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf6c4a1b461---81100972444.pdf
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///55209140186.pdf
    • http://womenscouncildallasarboretum.org/clients/85748/File/34619538230.pdf
    • 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_off0001297b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1297B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014192.bin
79b014c3dbc4c6c46176b6a421bc72ffe77e51621081d3304d1acd8cb254bc4c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14192 10912 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015af1.bin
3d8afc75ac35735e59c33b2b51ba942b032bf941da60fafcaecf25f99cda3f4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AF1 18652 bytes