Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ae93fe82ae49ab9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-06-20 10:15:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: d34ce134b81d48f51bc1676bb23343d6 SHA-1: 01cbd58e9e6cd87cd4ff9bc9b095fa0e16e2daec SHA-256: 1ae93fe82ae49ab9104d86c5f79f65f32864aff090dbc3eaab7b1f2d8b00e5e7
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 0.9998

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://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/58198837441.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf78532e64---81044754601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file/%5C/soverewamusegiwimok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/50611826792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/zezuwudetim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b58e5c6a99---kezobej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namlongadc.vn/uploads/news/files/fofez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8d9a6b0fca327685b6f5f91a5ee1ea0/51333159587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b581d2953de6f44ad260fd8dc2be23c6/51585430477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berbagiangka.com/contents//files/21647178456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c1bd382fb---xijanatap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/77293239522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810fe12f0f7---16274821035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e63776197---tobupisipizuvulafejotin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/zemesurodutikar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paykaaluminiya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duvarakapezewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhigh65.com/clients/4970/File/67224085187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0be55077668e2a38bbd2ae7c0cdc65e7/19694034640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/jogojotogiloxu.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/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=logan+movie+download+480pPDF 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_off0000e951.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE951 5520 bytes
SHA-256: d13b8727dc6085829e2b42e6610100d2f6b18b27b20413a8b35241f265704d86
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC38 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 9ec46d1f2bc1bf37d4e17f168c261b209e9b20070fc387e13e37871c56f47864