Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4287bcc70ea93909…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-05-27 20:31:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: a622f9921ca7daf1d33692a156238c8d SHA-1: 2c48fa51eac33f60e7d73c3eb48cc78b6220f03b SHA-256: 4287bcc70ea939099124443f608e64d8099b62509ed1e5d968b60ec5b4810be8
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 0.9995

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://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42c83d47c8ee0675c6e16e1a88f0a8d8/18439465105.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bbd650564---gujubijegateziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gluf1dj1ti4edm729su14ntpvb/45022473536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8839e78f6---feforafaruguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/78282983072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93df2580965890c16da0a2ce518e6a16/zuxamulomutuwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/18232723997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b230920fb---40845871064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609840f1ac6d4---46286599687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6fbd51792---nelekegatebadevetodijuvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4f27d6f0c---fikosabotifibowiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf73876fe84657f643cf514e490e57d6/pemisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/siwudatejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608265b3bca1b---lupesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=gktoday+january+2019+pdf+free+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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000d632.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD632 6440 bytes
SHA-256: edf517a561ed5132c6c1d5718ac6ff9d870a00e6f43a91762fd168a2279cca75
font_01_sfnt_off0000e628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE628 5704 bytes
SHA-256: e0ecc064e9cfb1243bf1d21e1ed49c905e29bba7a15e2768256fd2c872c27f8b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C7 4144 bytes
SHA-256: 6bbdcb4387b731e84a5b267c0e8182eaebf23a3b46fdeab48a4bc4d084c9bd32
font_03_sfnt_off0001067b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1067B 11128 bytes
SHA-256: ac62170bb2fc58a2e62c648af59f7e60dd8ded3b04befeab3fbc791eb21c45a3
font_04_sfnt_off00012c2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C2B 16324 bytes
SHA-256: b8170fdf83b46b5697382272cc9fe14bc919ab48b768333039aad4937d4610fd