Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c256b92b768533fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:20:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 64993b68cb47e4dfd68bf851dc4eaf30 SHA-1: 1df72d2b894119f74724f9f1c4f30e70c0f66fa7 SHA-256: c256b92b768533fb7c79ff372cc8fb8f892a9745239f134450e0d44a18ae20c7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs. The heuristics indicate a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious activity. ClamAV also detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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=aplicaciones+para+grabar+musica+en+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.pepinieres-gey.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rusimusoposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/80674953111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speak82.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/mosirumipodugavoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbfa2898e4dc466f1f8801bb93f94727/diwojok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sup045gobtsjidkjlq9t4eud42/pexunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubberia.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34653172042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalentini.eu/userfiles/files/lofulezatufejugabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tolltisztitas.eu/userfiles/files/ribipopurisupufenajuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puvurisolesisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truongthanhco.vn/webroot/img/files/kufitixiretujebasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fangjin.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6952474684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://merohamro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41165913433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138b1a29ba19---15147420180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/36813491140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/xokogozewit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transturist.ba/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/files/76422228812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leasebridge.com/CKUPimg/files/bapafokujotepovifakigoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenconcord.com/uploads/files/vubito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141bb0197d53---4581955161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df97fdecf462c5f5605f009b35826aab/39727042304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134953b0fd43---90609246272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccphucvinh.com/upload/files/xenorisanemawosafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304195a4fab---77254277743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sten.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210905205349.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_off0000d88b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD88B 18552 bytes
SHA-256: fa75418f0d5dd43ce456ac0b762d5921200e4b675848c054b1421b425024eb73
font_01_sfnt_off0001081d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1081D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012034.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12034 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 764c50a53164ddfc629d674dfa901003b59b03ec6e6cf233adafebfe6fb1294c