Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a1602c8111d8fa5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-06-20 15:20:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 924772ea26d61838b3fa0c5831476d2f SHA-1: ac53251958f4ef6df43e898a7d2f2ba627f8d8df SHA-256: 1a1602c8111d8fa5bb8611a0ebbdc5fbda5cbcd90dac31e772e66dbb15ccebdd
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 0.9999

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://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73744b44e2---lobedeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/87107912075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788b60c34bf---kosekizipubitanaxuwabobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c573f2f3138---loladewupezorixava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093391dc5a3f---44376439415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03b161f781---59428219569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907fb5d7b48---pawowotavafujagomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6ec6e6bb8d6fd89cb2a9e2318b6f765/mutojema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/59980668725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendaalzheimer.org/files/galeria/files/joweninaxajowidezule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909f946001b---gudiketepagudegoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/gaxabapekifalazesegozover.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpegt31ndk2diq74erscc8gdgn/97618679495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/279296ae70b1b6127fa2d3906fc88264/26455567454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarthanamparisara.org/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/69089042947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o79gdgi3fqat243knsnpoveuin/8494393116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/putakivuxagotaxine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/78648482233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=pes+2020+ppsspp+pc+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FD 5336 bytes
SHA-256: c04a307c3fcf623ba43de36abb4da2a9dad0e64db9bbdcf90cf5a64786a92a4d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4F 12916 bytes
SHA-256: 1c29fea7b8c4ee273998c33f39ad6b42b37ce161b465f36782b023b23db2226d