Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd573a77753be3ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-11 13:37:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 48c7af715dfaf7e86294c735d3c3ee3e SHA-1: 48fca77ef6c6b1df231793411c87cec6e25d856a SHA-256: bd573a77753be3edad288b1395ecee6a9195645f6812171a069a32206b88fb48
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 0.9979

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://biirbeh.mn/images/content/file/katopu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c7d8a9ab1---30671648288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pkv6rkk3i3i8pcgmr74kc0foo7/814660086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastadimatteo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiridavepavovuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/5806657616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608640ad0c927---wenir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0632ded1ceac52943f9aba0cf9887157/78755700406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yepsell.com/userfiles/files/wujerijevaxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/56227822095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5433437cb---pokuwepuvunuxirosagadabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittymall.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/5280868612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4985813660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/88261748228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb992bd0f6e---fowedibovipujuteji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79e6603b00---nuxanadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9d3c99f1d1d6c65733b509b4afe9b0a/zozosovujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7feb1a3c6d---kipawoguvasefaxesudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/soboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815177574bd---kikonikafogenufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24844349222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094e3744086d---folorubuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47439bc2dd---1409364816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=mcgraw+hill+virtual+frog+dissection+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000f52b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF52B 17552 bytes
SHA-256: 196b613324e80f27933deb57fca736b87a3907058749a35b6e2c528ff3291e55
font_01_sfnt_off00012311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12311 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 68706cadd37653670c7a6aa61f8681e4f04dca25b77d78da63fdd5a956030589
font_02_sfnt_off00013cc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CC8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1