Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d356ef776a7287cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:27:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 90e40418d36ab1e749811d2b20020417 SHA-1: 008e17f60f3f424a539dc8136c76bf579ad2bfd9 SHA-256: d356ef776a7287ccf900b93d2d7f26a658ac709311c37b679205859c3d0479ce
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a seed-phrase/secret-recovery lure. 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 0.9931

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zbook+15+g1+service+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/443edd9d74b2d65df95e1b14bdeabab2/6050806849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/fobudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/bipenenuradonerenik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/1850600121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a679ba6fe1a---9890469814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/zefep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7m198sked63a0daok1f2fmp06/34951216865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/pebirekorezid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1c9467b5de---mubejoxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/suldavbe98chc1bkutj22o7fmk/xulovelev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78053b051d01c864568afc69a966cdd9/65295212267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c440e0e837c2e7db827df0f5cc10ba1/4890989097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf16a7b108---72799661210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdff66a1ca6---pagigugunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/49977142085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/89175167793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2976a521b6ecdd7bb6a1e0f80b6c3587/518004285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tysons-cafe.com/uploads/files/maponirobawugilibux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dff45d442d---36249347549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylpqzl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42111136096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gioiacompany.net/images/upload/file/bafabarasawebudifozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/98253310468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/83341013897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daba98c605163ad66b8e5a52267950e3/rodiwadipolabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/210550306179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kommunikator.nu/demo/userfiles/file///44990448013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georeno.ca/userfiles/files/10128490119.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_off00011ab5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB5 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 50da687704edcd961fb09ff228566c3a26aa581c14e82c226d82200128d42cb0
font_01_sfnt_off00013478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13478 19420 bytes
SHA-256: 552884b1661e3782661d49bffb4a08b608c023e5db13bca0f96c16f442e58602
font_02_sfnt_off000166ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1