Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1585a13ed9a8b4d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:11:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: e11353cec4ae602c9e5ffc11a93e3200 SHA-1: 89faf7eef1ee799524c0887dfbff2530da46b71a SHA-256: 1585a13ed9a8b4d93275093a0348546b5a0afdb4337bfb03c645f14a26811f57
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 0.9947

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=circuit+diagrams+worksheet+ks2 PDF link annotation
    • http://suriyedostlukdernegi.org/image/files/70985459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756f6160968---27780497735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ud2-140.com/files/63760267858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/92605646341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b5154e03b1ecd90e2760882daebd17b/dagipuxedoresuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orangcar.com/app/webroot/upload/files/tatoxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/sexezepixofujana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euronuts2009.ge/files/files/9380308246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/xolupilapefusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09c6hegcogfc15kfkhqj8not87/33760034318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce60e511cb1---19682307638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okeefesreef.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82379504882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/mutux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eva5messkocgoep4lh4fda1al0/kuxafulekigow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/sagafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phone-server.com/userfiles/file/puzanisujujaradazebulikaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chothuethietbi.info/img/files/joxegozebafofeneruwujopif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3721676864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/pemudukepukizizurogelove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210614101308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/36823486927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/894e88ad266716fe19243afb7dcf1116/39659785870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--l3chcucnqd9c0eua7b1k.com/user_img/files/lixipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9f32f963d19f6bda607872f012fc8dd/47030540537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a593e3825---pezajawowano.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_off0000c14e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC14E 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 629325516823d76c83b25aa404acef645788b40ffde8cf9284a551fc49539e01
font_01_sfnt_off0000db2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB2B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f33d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF33D 16916 bytes
SHA-256: 6b4a977c90f93ee850777f5463acd188a0b6383163de0e87bc0ae90750d74167