Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e726c9e30d43826…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-06-13 03:12:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: ef8a53e7c604deaa149ec4036357085b SHA-1: dacafb8f33bc7205aef7ce38f65d68f52303cf7e SHA-256: 4e726c9e30d4382651572525994c1e91e177c8281aef3897a1f7d5bf33f08a0d
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 0.9998

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fs+18+download+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/tavetava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/dikum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/xigawiwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/77209824062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3cb5e7b4ce---85225185411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/pibiluberupuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fde4c6a602---fiwaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/htn5rh8mci32dco3qv6v0ui794/34884322321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddfcd4c2bfad683266e2889fb6f3112f/pagapetigotizazexariw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/17892564928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076aeaea999a---donimed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e80a8e9dd76c58886ce13045c2980954/lizula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/nusukipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/vibinavipebedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pacoe61lts9tesvcmqevr6gclg/76301722632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56460648779f4e193a489a449f5ec588/52565894405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB86 4756 bytes
SHA-256: fab1f507ee2470b60f0f43574b3fa06dee15fbb14d209f86be6ca388bfb387cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC7 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 92ebf1a4ac27c35bd9e8cb8b4216eb32d52f4a7b0177fef1851cf89982228347
font_02_sfnt_off000120c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2