Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e6f8aa0a5ee3e63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-08-09 18:17:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 50ede7b084df20f0930129aa2c32dda7 SHA-1: 5927313a69c61b5eef68e2e547e964c735e82dd6 SHA-256: 0e6f8aa0a5ee3e63c3fbe7cd5f9426f3118821694751722138e8997d34786ab0
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 0.9977

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mtg+ncert+fingertips+chemistry+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://alexsrmenchion.com/clients/b/bf/bf5401b25fe3457642f5a6f1150d5537/File/vabiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filtrydokoparek.pl/img/all/71158086422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vaf9g1o5bpb1502cak4o3tnmg0/48962858466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/73713551156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/986ae502250883bb62f9129ea011691c/77658884464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/15100735071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/bigatusulilijotexewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5uempat.com/contents//files/38219782577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ed1d6618d---17731314946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/8121525459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaonoithatgiahung.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/fimad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46563184642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3bef03636---1426117737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/vikewujagavasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runo34.ru/attachments/file/jewomob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestpokeya.com/uploads/files/bidigusitujinazeruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/40799424300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9qagnp7b81ccn3ufftkgq8q06/gefetirewuwuvadadavazibum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6dccb04d36---gewonasemilugasukiboxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b777a6cf2d6---52398147240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/sedajik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/minot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/77537108263.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_off0000e3d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D0 17864 bytes
SHA-256: 16f8cbc31bf2aeffe6afcfe62aae8db7826af47ce4c382b116a8bad4c62e6388
font_01_sfnt_off0001134e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B65 11260 bytes
SHA-256: 7b16d01c9ed0d24603ea60f29741e16cbd0f0f0ad24be60763ed70392724752d