Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 408f4e99bb5c3215…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:34:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: a81c00441c4b41eb251f13b22cea21e8 SHA-1: 5eb95d1c658296fe2d01311524338ed626dd8494 SHA-256: 408f4e99bb5c3215f8a1cdddc9b6886a28aafa39c90547a5bf6d6facd75b2068
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://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42f50157e7---6377764083.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a485f40f33b---14316328491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/44334426547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807ec7ba5d5---54974671301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servicedental.it/userfiles/files/rotapopetuvapusijufukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorapizza.it/userfiles/files/27201126756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobaliva.eu/userfiles/files/18373612359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a0c30e28e---xegizefebekexijomusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df2f3d359cf274dad5792efb42697393/baxosefopojuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fly.no1-yes.com/userfiles/file/76842892711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://targhevaticane.it/userfiles/files/1207673442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccd87faff93e69a9e91f1899df92b261/molireperi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maygiaphat.com/upload/files/82021709616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ks-klinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pakovavabisolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d3002cac5---kaxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/4500480937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cgrdu2ic5a743sp2aso46e1ef2/vipinonivaruripabipelew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kisito.com/userfiles/file/89543585790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontivo.ro/userfiles/file/najik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltanimalpark.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8bc5ba7633f9a9b89f4d9ba5dfdeb34/linanilatisebutipebiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e2e7208fa2d4e71841d1824c6c2d6d1/98184799630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/79090670847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glttek.com/userfiles/file/wolofimowelikewelanerori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=hunger+games+books+pdf+download+freePDF 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_off0000e037.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE037 11060 bytes
SHA-256: baff67cfbd82a9d9443492e7aa3ebacb4a562b43bbbb25f325a4a2626fece15c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF994 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000111a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111A6 20372 bytes
SHA-256: d0dd169e436a08c548109165f93e0619e3d038ea3eea75e72685ac614e2edb78