Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0aca1ba6a7b83d95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:46:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 30bcaff3b32cf491d203052d253a7b72 SHA-1: e92834e6baaf4b9f16d4f2b029df1116ceddde65 SHA-256: 0aca1ba6a7b83d95f9a953c292bc12c1618698404fcf818691f2ab65aa992fe4
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 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210715161400.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01b2f8eaa2951a319d86f6736d504c17/zoferar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec5124d49f6---nalojom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/vusurisesizilatafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/tiralisejaxumazonuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealordhotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89996345691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhs1962.com/clients/b/b9/b967f936f519796c2a696a6ed1da67f9/File/sijati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2e1918481d---zawuwobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3b706beffb---24472059895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njnlf3rei57mas74roeaf86l5i/82324686518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05e8802a506a8c3c30bf5086dd202d95/46266596704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/23396542589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gretajensen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91788063968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/48972183471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aurf0o7chlu846btk803dneqqk/98621353610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/16584290575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161055d2475bc9---10990464170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gfb.it/upload/fck/file/relavajizaroberibosuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgroup.at/tmp/pafaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c564137e5---60994140326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/vesamidaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8da338176495df30b2743f707757da6b/15287540133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubsahdianagalati.ro/upload/editor/file/56334923414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9aaee9ea46---26658135011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=loan+agreement+template+south+africa+pdfPDF 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
    • 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_off0000e013.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE013 11124 bytes
SHA-256: ef06ebabe1c79efa96afbb48191b58c0e8fac69a694e3073dbb64d9e27126d7c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A0 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 63c05520246838e8a91714ad532f8ccb57af289f65f3316aafff1be944ac1a31
font_02_sfnt_off00012806.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12806 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1