Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cf9fca57e92dced…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.9 KB Created: 2021-06-12 01:16:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 296b4c608b170a8a8e6639e98b8a320b SHA-1: eb5d1c843a8400b0eb62aa747f89379291a0c3af SHA-256: 1cf9fca57e92dcede3d57f7f13fd451faaa869d4cca0e2eb3c6b021d2700ba72
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 0.9994

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+scars+to+your+beautiful+alessia+cara PDF link annotation
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869b001bda2---4494012395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876e801f238---rosidasunagizupezime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e5b052d74efb1dabf1a35c13e4b91b4/74325126274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7affd703b---lifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e06b23265---94765244139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb328e8901---zusugobeguzof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/xijopigalizifizenezida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaac17b5de88b296fcc51a18c84eb1ed/99979805692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4995e7703---52233576960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/26445415304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9uc34jo7eujbp54mj5n7622465/28630157718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/3073483594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d86ef626040f00c2b772d5bdc724acd9/xodafidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe02f7b979---37986823440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe4dfqp6l9ih0nsv2oc0jcjvph/32434399964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b8989904c9c91036739a0a8ad556a94/41180010131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21f3a0e219---62076461031.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010c7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7B 3104 bytes
SHA-256: a4e432201b267aa8f6912f8eaaebb40e8c19e43f747ab545f9d4128380c1d62b
font_01_sfnt_off00011788.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11788 5348 bytes
SHA-256: 9b87ea213c3444b8d43b098380186017238c6304efe5b925b41417f68d45748e
font_02_sfnt_off000129dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129DD 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 3f70dbe7501368d2d5e23e0c1579faf8b4b6b55486d850cd5e8568331ccadbf2
font_03_sfnt_off00013bcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BCB 13300 bytes
SHA-256: d3e13cf07ff304b29871d5aebc39ee9d3880fb474399979685d8ca736c771afc
font_04_sfnt_off000165de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x165DE 16756 bytes
SHA-256: 9667c8bf8755b2f4018715e055c0833e9788a1c3bdd7b3e5e9f332dff4f71dd1