Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05515dda60f338ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-06-21 09:08:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 9ac02652bfec9072093764387664c8f7 SHA-1: af986b8fb6b3528c1b333a3436e4dcfffff6bd61 SHA-256: 05515dda60f338ace49fe51e448fbf892172d26e56055ddef694c7d20ba70efb
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, presents a deceptive download button and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860a68eb507---wetowad.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/nobimarujutivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/94480957206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volvo-cars.jp/js/upload/files/zazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/nedatalanobife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f735746831---dorenejozubotabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/12565818265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/8677451602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd56c07845b---rusigasareketuduwumetagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/2471745538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/wibetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/95206850112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/77308088636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kexunedigososa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a568d0a07b8---xonefof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+memory+reducerPDF link annotation
    • 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e15b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE15B 6512 bytes
SHA-256: ac0e153663485dd686928ca60b4a4a68d533d7543d77fedd8265d7af2c1b26ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A5 4852 bytes
SHA-256: 241967a50da446b5f4f4656ae9f106b117a95cfd3e44762678177c37bc65f715
font_02_sfnt_off00010217.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10217 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 9a39523d29b4f11b92695c153e4decca30b5555d56522ca6e617bc21c7a80a5a
font_03_sfnt_off00012595.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12595 16148 bytes
SHA-256: 333c6b7950143ef5b768b9d621755905cb9f9f437be433e332b6baa8edb2b5fd