Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb97dc3c2df9f2bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 18:32:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: a5f37b3af8bdb1f09c0a3e71e960bd76 SHA-1: d30079499ee273a139bee9f432a4ae069bb29b76 SHA-256: bb97dc3c2df9f2bc7b8689b3196fe973034feb2dc960ee818ac6d0d52b2becc0
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 0.9968

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=exercice+classe+grammaticale+3eme+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://shijijiaming.net/filespath/files/20210905123301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161372db3a2fd5---21835127599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdseoulps.com/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/2790406619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/34896766693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalhousieretreat.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60369725984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/58447868116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/ludir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriodiprogettazione-ve.it/userfiles/files/kizijoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c6fb13071---diwedewet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakura-bashi.com/uploads/files/202109070542408407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antoniolescio.net/userfiles/files/65184336133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8nof7l2fo3an40uiqcb6anva2/fibokofebutap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soi.icami.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vubujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nilesk.com/userfiles/file/liwufipixowagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74fb096d87ed9701004bdcec6fdd4102/mabudebatuseguxolufevesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertworker.paraleumarian.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/21264712580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenutaedone.com/filesUploads/file/22463934504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/59481703349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blccy.com/userfiles/files/tofigimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apc-algercentre.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gevexelitinijozobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.nl/userfiles/file/91139979597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.physedu.in/newsite/userfiles/files/turazixof.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_off0000cd92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD92 20404 bytes
SHA-256: 5ccf4424b440b3c45e88cd6f41cc40b5f85af0cad0a5fb09b71237ffcd7ad5ab
font_01_sfnt_off00010198.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10198 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 5c8de25b0ada263eadd3de8c60cf41b3da70d651317d4e40b1df9ea2e9387d52
font_02_sfnt_off00011b03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1