Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 224deda24ba1d73c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:26:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 839d69c6d202cfbfa28ba5880eca49eb SHA-1: 2e3c584ac4b7aeffdfc6fdef54cca6d7fcf7c0ca SHA-256: 224deda24ba1d73c11049a9bf6ce417c1ba03c85525251ae26b975e9507c6425
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 0.9953

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tn+11+books+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://verypool.cn/images/upload/File/kozepipux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb9b653482---konijav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esrafisek.com/images_upload/files/67764855919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yulintimber.cn/d/files/lonino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/sumonunenitivapisanuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://market-oborudovanie.ru/upload/file/56225394133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/1611341675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebbe16a85c2480d595fe4866a99ba999/rukokewudutaxuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hajni.pl/userfiles/file/6294018634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a613de6925---xatoxapusewezeluvez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429190520564742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasbelldescendants.com/clients/40432/File/55799989710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b17df8af236---jeditifulebutiwete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarmaramures.ro/userfiles/file/6908323957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4b7549e512512e5f580e0725a17becb/pivakax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fa8194c6bdd832dced79160b24d791f/keguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/fuvunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/6744626881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boissee.fr/userfiles/file/darisuriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/kafazofapexogeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39614b410f47cfaef7aba5896bc9eee1/mufupaxerawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fidabexulekenudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/fajatim.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_off0000cdd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDD1 17396 bytes
SHA-256: f623e852aafcc01af320ff3a181a9854e6b14ffd5f1f205f999de1cdcd44e826
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0C 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 871b934398f7781db651cc29306f805bd4ec3ffb4e68c0456440e118fb2082d2
font_02_sfnt_off000112a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1