Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4358e78ee437dfab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:11:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: e73ddb3cc3086bdc6e9b1fa613358705 SHA-1: 727b6add1a1d0a1e29ce13019ce120a687411584 SHA-256: 4358e78ee437dfabf11ca0ca59545509df49be8e9345547d0a95fa51aaaa7aca
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 0.9974

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 http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c351e702cfc---fugiwelutidilojizatav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kbinteriery.cz/userfiles/file/34454375020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salukool.ee/upload/userfiles/file/jusizugakerunujowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/90888136633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/57067075950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiangzhuan.tw/upload/files/93435611746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/14084043599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elturo.ru/img/upload/files/degazodeserozumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munord.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48d76e2689f295fbdae22b28c70a0ac6/pulukaxutev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e74be0fbff---48672122247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202108281022339699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paidionresearch.com/userfiles/files/63773717176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avalon-essenzen.at/userfiles/file/puzigeveziwokopefajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49176714426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/99506289360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dytac.hk/userfiles/69539886599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c60f2df3e9dfc35ac44b1735b2432f2a/61521835715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa17cc884dd---figonoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/xovanezido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/49966041164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/xepotitatopejotixuxidasig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafemocion.com/userfiles/file/razidusenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/169501070860cfbd4ca712e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8578423230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home-consult.lu/userfiles/files/vomivanelixisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=bca+mathematics+notes+1st+semester+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_off0000e43c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE43C 17348 bytes
SHA-256: ed796072a5748cd33902c00cc8298e9ef8871e1d23bd38b8575fe5e17b98338e
font_01_sfnt_off00011082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11082 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12899 10944 bytes
SHA-256: c24d87b35b87b145b2b16fd5f2cf3bda5b01eb86d1513fa2f8aae4b168b112cc