Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a7b601d7cb94a41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:23:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 6773a53938a6a49d8cac13e19f11bc0c SHA-1: 1ea256824c4e3d200d9f17078c4ea2120516624d SHA-256: 3a7b601d7cb94a4174c82308d15eac0b4aedd2118ac1cf072a364517dfd86a0a
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 0.9956

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=router+linksys+e900+manual+espa%C3%B1ol PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947855409f3---14252328308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ray-king67reunion.com/clients/41562/File/29845161100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c55b714d950---11294450290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90e816706e0b2451e0345bae835cac4f/nemopolesevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blueoak.fr/image/file/95487420277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/75278496958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/15056351411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b485ee6ce6d---55403198295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/sogajobop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/maethgfvk1t5b7a4c1fu9780ej/64358407934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e89c53b9c74e804630c19eb28650627/10004912588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidwoodmachine.com/d/files/tenifozebokosus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lymfologi.se/anvandarbilder/221/files/49862358606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8ebec40ad---60019112947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/nekuwupinaralede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-warszawa.pl/pliki/file/37391529383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608630dac5734---99333960216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4u6pko05elq1e0ffprkbft7g7l/sejadirasefekoromute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5oi7qprqmt8cn3oamd521a132/34920569029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ornito-silesia.eu/userfiles/file/xunisolifulafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/lasubinudivojesikonivoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/74044427607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e2169879c---xewuxamudubaduxenofowerok.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_off0000d1d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1D3 11260 bytes
SHA-256: 9ed2807bcd0686f9c3915402378b17e9132f8664143c9e7685f0958c3a170999
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC05 18184 bytes
SHA-256: c5705be63e4dd45ab38541605283d78ef9baab673b17b3bd07a327ab40eef75f
font_02_sfnt_off00011ab8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1