Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bccef17fc8761c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 11:17:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: a58372add4fdfaccdc457db9d8285124 SHA-1: d9247eefcd9638576829117e6cd9fce4481ee53f SHA-256: 0bccef17fc8761c50fc83d826effdc2388bbd7afe458512fcde5eff2151af274
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 0.9951

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=example+of+informed+consent+form+for+research PDF link annotation
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/41286441778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/60854311253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e088710025f7beb490b9230972e8515f/77005968655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/63148625642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltop1976.com/clients/24685/File/kowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/zapujuwevawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livresdarts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rezusubok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/965461ec1985ed69bf22e066ae9c3899/37112474015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077653dc81fc---37064752044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/50397993506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983932e4dd9---86443623509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-30/20210530012439230208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/lemifatoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f693921a62---fiperuvalavipumivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fbde29f270---16407234818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609faacb2eeff---55803386167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f43561477---tevajogow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b4bd0ecbd00ece3227ec6d6a8c04cce/nofuxuzawekafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/83562256972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuhlshop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98318325862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7cee49a2e9344268fb44a05526bd9ee/nixezepirosegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6b959c3f0f5b6348b2f88b87a0329c6/5550064381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hb55cdqn7qci96n9el2rcpasub/81185565227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cebbd0839f73f6fdc4c8b281c4c724bb/6887073764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eih376aqddo9jj0fs5m1s75c2/gokavokogewukuzanimu.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_off0000e182.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE182 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 14f1f8c0edf0a5fc1955df949aa9d7c88335859a5483c317c439fff429671987
font_01_sfnt_off00010d73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001258a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1258A 10968 bytes
SHA-256: f260e22448a89a36365d5e40135530fa0a188ca177b7acc209d951af36c4dfd4