Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c182417bc8c6480…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:57:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: ac48bc9ce4d3bbc05acbb2061b235893 SHA-1: cd5200d6cf316133b5cb3536b34a3c43f99483cd SHA-256: 3c182417bc8c6480c80cafeee28e1b050581f957e4134be22332affed202485f
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 0.9977

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 http://hamyarsanatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61844450414.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://helderlive.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/veturexaxawomaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijtm.in/userfiles/file/bofulutafigorutosas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benevolo.it/userfiles/files/64658320268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a980d553014---74692256169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/49351084930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e84a103e500f2f18a7e933b1db687ae/rigidijeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--z92bzy85x.com/userData/board/file/bofeperuzerawedatesedokef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asid.rw/userfiles/file/gadadazig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea9ad61811---kanedazexekowotili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solener.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49516361176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/59814452441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16088717f31a12---vefitib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/35815106033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rm9rkdoge9rp1s8k9f17igd7sd/19696423561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldcpc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27926489629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/fibipuwejoxevesirobadis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607026d9a162e---52022916845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797496a5317---pubare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n56ggb5f4na0htu6bio020ghoj/zegoludegabemakowib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a01c84b49---99812043488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/niwodejeruwotefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608119d876750---80078736815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=computer+graphics+book+by+donald+hearn+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_off0000e01b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE01B 11632 bytes
SHA-256: a1b502356190083e7dc3efbe6334ccfa556abf4d144925317f98a3557090e437
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11357 18288 bytes
SHA-256: 88c239a40eb6f4bdbb670dee3d5468e2398a79b2613eacf64ab5f7d3b5a1960c