Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e562959c7bc41c79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-24 21:04:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9d8da0bf00b798d3a24734b19267d3f7 SHA-1: 7e34d77f64042d980a31b4cd0c74cf1d008c2796 SHA-256: e562959c7bc41c7933abb1d8088924e283fe23c22eb36fb4e6a5b511a00a4daa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document's primary purpose is to act as a link farm on disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=low+mb+shooting+games PDF link annotation
    • https://mindtrainingsystems.com/userfiles/file/89830389427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabstina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26367625616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cb717039d9---4363763829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubesubscribers.com/ci/userfiles/files/38901978954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d3d62e2370bae8679f68ea0c001d64f/88962232674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volareinmongolfiera.it/userfiles/files/pafipaxaduvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/bisepiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graylegalservices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fakisedebewupedekelesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab980ce3992569d8569f11439859b9b5/63304054234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mabifitness.it/userfiles/files/3154605683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/lumakusoxurojedilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezclasssites.com/var/wwww/dev-ezclasssites-com/data/files/4548516649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/nukerusupudogugakamatekex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamalight.net/business_school/uploads/file/rofosuwesavuberanar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur2.com/contents/files/modinagijarinava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyt.jp/p_images/resource_library/file/gopevuvixepado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shturnev.com/files/foFKED/file/bevufubamukino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cissi.it/userfiles/files/jumakoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gornjastubica.hr/files/toguzatipibiwuzumakajux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lixupeng.com/uploads/files/tidiledapudixigumajawokov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329869396f3---risevutoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimcert.com/E/file/nidenolewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/69522001096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2daytour.com/ckupload/files/57707695420.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_off0000b44c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB44C 17156 bytes
SHA-256: ce2ea0ef60a1bdec6a1422fd416b84487e30cd44563304957202874ec4fe95d1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f810.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF810 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 800f68456a49f301a3efec3d78ceaedfab4bfb4cc23d9d591e89b4b648c971f3