Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3553f35c65d64bc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:48:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: d05e4b153d50bf23204e266baca5e3d9 SHA-1: e5b147d72930ccf3b7005854288ea7b10c619605 SHA-256: 3553f35c65d64bc7d0c8ca083a8dd264eda2b13c33085832b2fa05d2d9655f3b
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 0.9968

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://landi-bg.com/images/file/18420145062.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mofrantech.com/userfiles/file/xodosujulazogiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ad01346ada---pelosomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamsongdamchoi.com/images/chua-phan-loai/files/xumivajoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-st.nl/bestanden/files/leviber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c759498701d---29745631960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/846948f42ea66bddf016eb557e56551b/kizoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/96067974416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/dagopamufunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dbfcb94f3c74f6d001e933701122849/wokorafekunekupinov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austral-immo.com/userfiles/files/11721927327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c91583df4---nanufatutixebivodogexola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yalcinplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/23451220934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/48375977231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed906d616c---bidiwisavewevetugerano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l896ck4gibr73u9u1m299evl9m/22835130261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huanghecables.com/d/files/revejuzobakofidonoxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webrekruit.com/php_codes/Scott/VieauAssociates/code/userfiles/file/wofazidanovuvawutefun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/91601133833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/wuwuzavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc529c3a2eca618423daf5cb8c588268/34460367529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82f0d2fe9fc7fc9ad3430bb91e9054f7/9001197170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/doribeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xepolala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=relieving+letter+format+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off00010216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10216 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A28 18204 bytes
SHA-256: 4f96aec1056875a05ecd00a4ebba38b86672d1be35b9a5617dda6cae619c9f61
font_02_sfnt_off0001496e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1496E 10872 bytes
SHA-256: ed0461c190134b20279a3554fe9637b2425b8328d944abdd5ecee61a9d0c28ba