Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e166a145532d699…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:15:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 895ad805b20a499e2349a432472dc463 SHA-1: 35d65f5abe2e5a1a641687134ad3d15870546e98 SHA-256: 1e166a145532d6996415aaa378fa23bc115a21424098ceb72f2555c4cab206d4
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 0.9942

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://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/tigizowaje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b047cc4b5---68467934826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtammatnamviet.vn/upload/files/limuwatumolezoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlligcb9u9uvrbhvldh9n0qatc/subukef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2b68ed48bb---73054750419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de18df5a7334a30adfe4e91a866ef792/fuvixabusubifanub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marigabung.com/contents//files/4039914172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4efc76b37d493e0a6f481390d7b8436/gobemadudilemavefexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bnagl1p0jc6s2g31r9ni2v44u7/50019571165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xukukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/va417ebkrs70g5j0eir7ptghb6/47147724883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/rifafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extrastyle.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bexolemomamexosopezuken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af3fd10ab57---87962931376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95982751640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075148a9aed7---44604043903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digicpictures.com/downloads/68371712354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49db5c8fbd---26897877867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/wabojikimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610723fc1bf8a---dazisuzejoxakitarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/43934826597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/loxumepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be90571d567---nelekibabat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adf182520d1---gojivoruvokoxerusevaxexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=jumbled+sentences+worksheet+for+class+1PDF 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_off0000fe58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE58 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 43f96754821b55e9f9b02a312d61e853fb1ca39381494acf3b0c16346aad6582
font_01_sfnt_off00011837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11837 18968 bytes
SHA-256: 46b8238861b12e9a04f7342fa0c1b766798b5b23ab486c0760459b5d6ed84236
font_02_sfnt_off00014a0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1