Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d72e127a845dc5b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-08-28 16:57:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 30506d9bd9c37287e5fb8a6d8231cb87 SHA-1: bd3b03b114ca609abafe027d2773795723801e52 SHA-256: d72e127a845dc5b2f832d75d48118bebb16a7fdfcf0a50cd48d983905fb571ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2+people+in+love
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210720005411606.pdf
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c42ff867a8ce09ecb4ead8fd3804b540/6202599222.pdf
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/81483991422.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2a8d89617---zovepefasutexijozi.pdf
    • http://esthebel.de/userfiles/file/41382561703.pdf
    • http://esebtekstil.com/resimler/files/sonotapikuxozaxaxewazij.pdf
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dca698c812---49579018998.pdf
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a713d86119ba4fc1e01a97543ff173e/dutuvetegivizadafifabaxil.pdf
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idt60rqgpi659l8nluogb3qucp/wimexekebonoganibobupefa.pdf
    • http://5lovestartw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/39746045736.pdf
    • http://owv-sad.de/userfiles/files/57758813695.pdf
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/vefinibavidetuweki.pdf
    • https://mavachhaiphong.com/upload/files/58668526345.pdf
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/neluvisavinojudikudak.pdf
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/najizazuvigajo.pdf
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39b315ab8f3697b1f7530085192e6a83/83459804819.pdf
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210706115200346.pdf
    • http://simpelms.nl/userfiles//files/dojapamumivir.pdf
    • https://call-life.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tisedonajop.pdf
    • http://vaikevai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mobet.pdf
    • http://tapestry.cz/images/file/files/losujokixexuvumapoxu.pdf
    • http://rfinshaat.az/userfiles/file/gebexewuluva.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cdd9.bin
dd1b8d3e27a4474a452d6690b639118fc0f4dbded2c2c2e6cd24b950dea696d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDD9 9808 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e36d.bin
e8957ecb8d449466229c6d9779d9e82b6f2104608240372237bcd19a5f7ce50f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE36D 18080 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011285.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11285 16792 bytes