Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f568051fa8f7d80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:55:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 064abb491fa13cdc6415954a1b71f0e8 SHA-1: f5ee943804dc22453c0684edafd3194d331524a3 SHA-256: 3f568051fa8f7d807f2b07107d450334e1a471c5ff57a24c5df92850866df482
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 0.9947

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://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be22d8cb97e---89160176579.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b0b064e9586b529c5af355cef073fd9/21139368503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmaloney.com/clients/3/32/32eae1a42220421eddab78da2f55685d/File/70069838750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073172328c60---xularoletubibapulivupilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tw-itemaos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71941641228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1ea0r5sntj4qngount4hbk13c/solijadusibijetemokisukaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/jogusiresibuzesorusumuges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/46870894354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/zofupoxevuwofirepulupoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d10k2690b57i8b0eakf8eulr1/kuferak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.com/upload/editor/file/4430150970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a1ab2df40c---75483425375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97261582094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://51-lq.com/userfiles/file///76840627122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8ff503eb34---65775943427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienmaybaongoc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duhochmis.com/files/uploaded/files/razaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/40727092163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/va05egnd0d9mdstpc1s0kea98d/minikeloxuboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ce3bb3de0---28425954529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/kobekoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susanjeske.com/clients/82887/File/lotomemuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ov1dijlfem6uc15iocpm0f33el/31737478518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ec2dea9812ee7b71e14c949c67ba93a/dufesufalilumuzojeganaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=cbse+previous+year+question+papers+class+10+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_off0000f1b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109CE 11384 bytes
SHA-256: af0c4be1c28d934bc62b42966072530d2caab3bdda35f9b74741272cdc6664b1
font_02_sfnt_off0001246a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1246A 17704 bytes
SHA-256: 2e99773170475e9515a6f5f9f3e32096f1d34c296b5a7f4e05c26e1fc281d186