Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11c3f1da5f338478…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-07-28 08:43:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: c5a357215dd6010b1a28c21c35aafe6e SHA-1: 1a4dffb338b9a026c4d05862b6d4d52d24d90b61 SHA-256: 11c3f1da5f338478c76138b0e1647c8ccb451585ac8eaa5f808beb8a20a5544c
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 0.9982

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 https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a2936defdf26d48d82cb680facb377b/wevojikotexosoka.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770c1fcab4b---30019570712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160accd7f88d72---47886726607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/69057048941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vitenave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/65109250074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/45109012455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/defe9cd92198321c0cd04554254ffd7e/sibopikumadus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c78a5de1a1---genopudanaxujufewasusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2cec2c82e5---86402497606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ed10b3a8ab17d0bf272316178b56e81/ralebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/59969525311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/92411737466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744173358f6---20879533228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d4e5070ec---wakawajarorafeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/15877998198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/lagatit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakistanchristiancongress.org/userfiles/file/84378830777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/vowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laweasy.kr/userfiles/file/pepuragazudebadim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/98963255274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=technical+analysis+of+stock+trends+11th+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_off000108fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108FA 18588 bytes
SHA-256: 0f9688e838adec16c48e42595b152fe3e1a42ec4eb29026f4c69a5298ff69af3
font_01_sfnt_off0001397d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1397D 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 13bea49e50fe5b2b19bda97454d33f58f8ba6a562859624a7cd20f759e6f959b
font_02_sfnt_off000152e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1