Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a81f83d2fd3180c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:46:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: a0170dc75ee807b7ad29319c0556d7d2 SHA-1: 73cc64497de4946524a43be42e74dda45c445369 SHA-256: 4a81f83d2fd3180c68053670c869c4f0cbd5baabcf22ce0083b3d3a54bb1ce44
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 0.9953

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ramayanam+telugu+book+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/23756141313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/90861428525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/lubalonuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universe-micro.com/upload/files/20210705_165802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/bibovidiwodufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s13mt06gns3jma4p78j3namgdk/bunoravurafikuzusajojifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ekoforte.com/upload/file/97915451063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46d992d68c---lotunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a159c538a---66804467676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72e3a42d99b7cdf0c606405b2620eb3d/xatiweje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/92591368505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087da70e0e10---96583971031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4be1c95f54c1513c21ec0cb7e5431e19/51241840786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/savunenozetuvosino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c39hsf5s52cgat8l8mt7qvefn/varomonutoforejataxujaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eniedu.com/data/file/20210825141958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fcbb33dc1---86102298197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/62593866044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/64824282281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074646601123---wijolun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/wedivepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3eb6b36ffaf6fd1a19c911ef229c8dd/basemebowulukumoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f24435140---repatukapizipususiba.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://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_off0000c1c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1C1 11056 bytes
SHA-256: d9b58327301bc1ec0a2e8675609d41f6391d30bab43afff656c2fc89b5c69a76
font_01_sfnt_off0000db30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB30 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f342.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF342 18968 bytes
SHA-256: f7e8d00fa1bb350497cf866fb7fad3433d68ff139846e6514d3a0d206178589c