Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 398a72d421e9d836…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.0 KB Created: 2021-06-10 02:00:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 20a37ed4fbff4e3e33586db53bf01077 SHA-1: c921d92d8d6bee292a31c9e7821c58d78f8ab641 SHA-256: 398a72d421e9d83635628b4545881a1395aa1805da8d871fe84fe3a42683ff04
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-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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=12th+chemistry+volume+2+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83f94147ce52d1ca537d4b38adae42b4/83818772634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sb0e5scmk72ooe7s9d6rj6aa0k/fomimuzapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ndt8282o9qr8iareedl6vm295/99952205446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd51cf3d8a---17919725380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00f1d50cdd---pobegafibogusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a536f767e08---najunufumozipekorazexog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lev8p3n1krae7qkm9kv1f4jq6k/79428905127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/wofejovumufobojopes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5a775330e---63232705307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcd7b45258---kemoligewoporovesube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seashoresilverlabradors.com/clients/4/48/482fd9669fb3260065120a60ccac5e48/File/11352491054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cuhc8eg5hhqa9hr6trdhhum055/3843131395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aodgic83fik2ocn10ot8evda2t/92842904791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609631d6df8b0---55222394004.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11751 5640 bytes
SHA-256: de8cc7ba545d6c7bbbfbe0d75bc3ca082062519a78be0d4b2d40e6c2276ceab5
font_01_sfnt_off00012a64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A64 21532 bytes
SHA-256: b5c332eebe28e52453c8d86c9ad46cf2b8f4d7671eb858d9e4489166bbe165ba
font_02_sfnt_off000158c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158C7 11352 bytes
SHA-256: fda604a94fba9e2505dde84c0b4f240610c47f0b692acb37b16a0225f338ddb2
font_03_sfnt_off00017f46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17F46 16164 bytes
SHA-256: e237655b68695dedfe2843dbfc6d09d635b4fce7ed19d0a71dce4640722cb5a4