Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09df299f13440ced…

MALICIOUS

PDF

147.9 KB Created: 2021-06-06 11:37:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: e1693c348f7c0c5de3f2d8ceed82aba1 SHA-1: 8798740c48c6d1b5256b6f3bb6dbf8b089326218 SHA-256: 09df299f13440ced9dd18a87a07c60aad424256f2622b86e09ff5ac4dc8f431c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+mpg+does+a+prius+hybrid+get PDF link annotation
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847aaf2fbcc---55298327854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608307d8191eb---93017569411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3e4644d02757ed131323febb99679b7/3589399317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fec411c30d---zizumedasijaxetepigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d7f98fa7c---gowonolexitiwetotodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceb8d658ffb4f8802495cbdc1212eb34/97341677051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2f01b91b7327eb15f639a6a96ce3e14/mavetitifilarizififubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charqueadaboavista.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac442c749ebb2d8db5c793a023e187cb/94549151275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f38842084a---6082909088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80ptr0gqtcqdieh89luethvv93/37981535911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16214cd261c03abbf4862d118c8d676d/bozurodenomufazurebaduwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/sojezex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b744e66f4bb---97062660513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamcatcherltd.com/userfiles/file/sefobabib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuwebsites.com/media/ftp/file/wumeken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff9810dbb2---23045478673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://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_off0001dc64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DC64 4344 bytes
SHA-256: 540e36e9d4071e810423aec18c6d745ec469368b038a3533d284704195148b8f
font_01_sfnt_off0001ebbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EBBE 5636 bytes
SHA-256: dcb0af2cec5f4022f26b43a5da830bc1613f76cbc948e5a02f0e95c11fe579d6
font_02_sfnt_off0001fecf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FECF 14168 bytes
SHA-256: ddac4c11ce62cb71bb284c01551777142f9b33572e803a6c6e89cdab40ac1cea
font_03_sfnt_off00022ccd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22CCD 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 5b0d2701ab39d2f69c66d7d16c60d8db0b323aa0832947137e757b5401d27330