Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd6579a51d775ca2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:05:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8b46c92a82c50109b3c31398ce8345e5 SHA-1: 3cbca6dd5b6f902d0028104d6cae171cb0881507 SHA-256: fd6579a51d775ca2e9bbe1fb95a53f2cf4f06902025a629302ff76bcf8bf3708
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+night+happy+hour+near+me PDF link annotation
    • http://unicaconsultoriarh.com/images/files/xixapujiponodesadojekaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/460874ff12d5e9406f0afd28117b50c3/78151467781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609905ecc526f---30681764462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/47501091994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d38f938a74f114e2d6f6158067d1a0c7/gukaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10b239f2351c2eae0dc97751e1dae37b/8511861086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210529011250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d8e518a2dc18e2b8af95648f6941149/98317013270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/36741860512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestuby.com/userfiles/file/48666750593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibiforstarlight.ca/clients/3/3c/3cfcca4e360ca8807b7dd7d6e7cbeae0/File/87146259353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5499505dcd---vilejarasotana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802ed329daa---1059102356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/56826018615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfa5a3f512---sajemadotobuzuxaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvmkegps0hcc6necn77n9mbb40/texojaxujerer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/polikigipebulirokavuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e578d7d1a---78941919105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cnpfafstk2ojj9ecfdrnl734j0/1559997856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f4143faf6---derikewivekisumimuwifibes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2298c41a944387d385a43f471bebcb6/27684993163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607416733922b---4217672504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/27562164178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s0pm0eib1v11cf2698nf0bas40/jijixonijitunafujani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b53dad411d0---tiduzanitokuxepa.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_off0000f366.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF366 17468 bytes
SHA-256: aceda810bdb5513653c07289795074424f2ca2088aca58b1078b3ea8c250886f
font_01_sfnt_off00012161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12161 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013978.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13978 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 281ca4bb706c74e72a8b38935ff19456144d0e9ea5a54063e3f0dfc312cbb65e