Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b562facf1c01cbce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 20:10:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9fc1bdcac50168afcaac8891c088d3d6 SHA-1: 446d60d4b446a5af406793fe8f9807b70ca705eb SHA-256: b562facf1c01cbce13ff785a09e05567b142b114ae7cb399a923e9a1423dff84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of creating a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+1+full+movie+download PDF link annotation
    • http://lovesenergy.nl/file/nifoduvugibiloze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e89f22329---sulodevavolijevanobika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://998.geektic.com/geektic/files/14771485537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roocenter.ru/upload/file/29121071010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modulobase.com/userfiles/file/lepolotixokeboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farsiherbal.com/cache/fck_files/file/biwonatezesopukagopeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/77911304293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultemergingmarkets.cubsindia.com/files/baxizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/927dd9dd99dca190fcbbc6101cb89140/jodozewixovemus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhao-tech.com/userfiles/file/80372786615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dammesliepas.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32064287613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/41765946282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marine-inox.com/i/File/97993392035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/95674613030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/33817847116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/42288071476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/57914509680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f01800f34---98956710422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitsiluet.cz/data/file/niwumaxugafarobumexilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/of0e85os8q4kqauqbnv01rntmk/57367750401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://napiarsaigh.com/images/80779870440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148fa0587cf0---10926388554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkc1.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/38012900800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/33172535488.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_off0000bee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6F9 10900 bytes
SHA-256: ae4bad05ad6d5c8de68c996477489d5d60fa5e86cfd526e38f3572f891228402
font_02_sfnt_off0000f03a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF03A 16548 bytes
SHA-256: 0aef8b00e5730df3ad1341e5e985336ae87ed472cc342937788afcc6c3d7ea21