Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b83cf70083e71dbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 14:33:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: baf53570a476ad49e776be96038c0e2a SHA-1: d6ffdbf1e8d2dc7a7aa8fd3b012382364de48328 SHA-256: b83cf70083e71dbf8d4668766866e8b70cc2ca984c8c8a5a53df9b9c2e2e1029
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=react+native+status+bar+color+android PDF link annotation
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/domeledonuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candybeauty.vn/upload/files/fununodatopodijuwotid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energiadirect.pl/application/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9255690689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnsgafgl.netsociality.com/upload/files/rinegesofaxenawizotuvoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmei.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pefiwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat2.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56976504550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggievanostrand.com/uploads/media/file/sinerixupofozada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/70785799732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f85ea5bd5---48408143256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kabaretyimpresariat.pl/Upload/file/96748780134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibunajcc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tukazenaxunemuvozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4bd6eedcf22f54a282a638e465ded46/gibebesixajap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibanghanoi.com/uploads/files/mivaxixujipidugogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2m-m.eu/userfiles/files/38824708152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/37566937466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210912052912_c8dovd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toroisg.com/public/images/files/73648695444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baptistfriends.org/media/zarubusaluxeseranediwawax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/91028439654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vr-spagna-20.effievirtual.com/galeria/files/7374481023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/3731621120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134222c9523d---tunepoxelumokedoxajinemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilafafafa.com/shopadmin/upload/files/fikewi.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_off0000dd76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f58d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58D 10712 bytes
SHA-256: a71cfb356b82333be8e5873d2ab93e1e88bc2056eb965165613cfbca70037ddf
font_02_sfnt_off00010e48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E48 18208 bytes
SHA-256: 2a244ebc174b9859bb95732456d6341abe7da77cbde805ffcaa573374e0f1fab