Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f46c5630b2d4625…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-06-24 16:49:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: ee68ca01022f10aa98de4c68f61fc5c0 SHA-1: 68e2de8c919322a61bf75e7c1fc0f2d94ee65e57 SHA-256: 4f46c5630b2d462546bd44688f807a41bea49f4b5584289fbbef39b07f6cffba
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=far+cry+new+dawn+download+torrent PDF link annotation
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f028622f1442adbe2b2b98376b9009e/94882738723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/xavogavobinirepikuzox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a79699adb791aa42f457a7f3c134e90c/27877105940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/liwesifaroxilopadarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2cvvc0eplq94dqdqmovpkr1p4/digokixenawuvufupexala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c9398ce1f82c3a0a32247e55790c0f6/xevifogilusubuludawuxojoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/20068991304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/bexusozunuresufozusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a179d1edc---javepagevegalano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/powazowugoxigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoforace.eu/userfiles/files/futuwetuzepewupomevunerop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruilong-ironwork.com/CKEdit/upload/files/69771256186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domusanna.it/userfiles/files/87443343995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093af8e4a5f6---94960428198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edfa66812ebf9c82a74a1cb9929e1ed1/51683192448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/fomovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9cd42dbdc4---265612714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094883d2b01f---warokovurilenilila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000117f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117F5 4904 bytes
SHA-256: 710789f34164f6acf1650e6b7d0254b665d9a68d8bd885c6e27e5e76614cf581
font_01_sfnt_off000128ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128CE 12984 bytes
SHA-256: 5937eeb9ed38328cdbd5847872fe19849209eb5faa7159a0d812e8425a823e5c