Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4108032b8c1f4e29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

140.8 KB Created: 2021-06-12 13:08:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 67cf3f87bdd7c14d7d7c6134a0809d7c SHA-1: ac01a06f7c0dddc19c350fc37f8c0f0e1d209f8f SHA-256: 4108032b8c1f4e29dcc3cdb47e9e623d98c3b7db83d7bfff6dcec7c073639e45
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 0.9980

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rapidex+english+speaking+book+marathi+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44c983321161028acc53df443462d579/45626981899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082453e875f6---33469897026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kd4a7e67naff697os8if3st7s4/58593312924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af43c878b29---36903333179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab3ef333c6428f4e5e89fc1ba207c343/30691860839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b521451eb00---44403917043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/damej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57548227059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhathuydesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nccft9lv5rdavs63a1v53aust9/20537517702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962f7ead79d---fitujitobigugegadiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac0916fd58---retebeduvupewebadanozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0j7kmjb5hn1rugbmhvs0q6pc1s/38460190981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/10695141772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/pivelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/97306307414.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
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/3796641119.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://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00018b77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18B77 5732 bytes
SHA-256: 3ff6558de9aae021a3385cc81b37b6cfd6b53ef8ef180fccd5a9843efbf09509
font_01_sfnt_off00019ed5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19ED5 3720 bytes
SHA-256: d0c9e33916e9e64e42e31bcf0d345f6c2fcd41735b1a34df0119bd0eb1094281
font_02_sfnt_off0001aa39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AA39 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 69163663a0e37980c624542f245dc8a21e0eefbba5f51ce390e96e1c27978714
font_03_sfnt_off0001d07d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D07D 16164 bytes
SHA-256: e296a61d2d303e35be9e1a35631556663d2780498efa7e8f3867bf557f172fe6
font_04_sfnt_off0001e5d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E5D1 22888 bytes
SHA-256: 11003402a2b73824bd7e0d998347d4eb01468591ffde87d963dd617b46cfea6c