Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 285aa1f6908737a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-08-16 06:49:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 14fc99b5cf815c66a31771b55a9ad857 SHA-1: 3bb6c14f95ba54e0aeedbf6698d446b8c8d46981 SHA-256: 285aa1f6908737a8416ee21cbcf93c64d6f632477ccbb71fe371fef8ce17c1f1
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 0.9955

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://sibois.eu/userfiles/file/47497205792.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/24074000258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents//files/wudufiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-gallery.mn/uploads/files/gituzarusurulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59ou7t4iqvavrqvlvvfo2cr5b1/tofajobomijijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5q1dmvhk866mdh7erk17h0keh/kemobow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joebalogh.ro/imagini_ws/nexopabumut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/84017513675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/48037886764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majortaylorride.info/images/uploaded/file/18768686087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d826196b1---wiwasofufumabudepumininif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frappsreagent.com/upload/files/61767494393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078fccc58ae2---dijededowuzawovafesimezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1c9117b87560eb8d98ad6076a2d8eb6/62454261616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalclinicbangalore.com/uploads/befulapixumazavajusiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/59007270756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/totifuxoxufaxajubop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04511a5506c3b612feab3d5e17180fc4/30466788548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/599b7d550c696138ad60221eb6b0a0a3/tutotezalup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/51031613484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rea9r53q899d3fem3ngaa4dsb5/zumolarowupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a80663b3c4---50752440888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/wonugewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7af447facf---93746618923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=amar+ujala+newspaper+in+hindi+pdfPDF 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_off0000e1d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D5 10844 bytes
SHA-256: bde8fee47ec1f71d7be9a9b9f5787136c88f78eee3ce9e93da8a76413da2bdc6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA98 17840 bytes
SHA-256: 8b321289f072f9ff6347aa73610acfafcaf465cd1d0ac9099e80cf1f989d26e7
font_02_sfnt_off0001299a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1299A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1