Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57ab3a2007a67821…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:12:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 221f21a49fea661d4f456f8aa81c3bbd SHA-1: 31ee596ba0e44de678891c3f3b7b8e3bc5406ef1 SHA-256: 57ab3a2007a678217b7a13ea87c1f75dba4c4f6e1b39e649cfc57e078fcaacea
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 0.9966

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 http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/dinoxexon.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e5a2c47c0---25915775621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086063054bb0---zunukilujusopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/zenetotin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitecoreromania.ro/files/file/banir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mpressivelabels.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24489085616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csss77.com/clients/d/df/df7f2fdc42e243c7a03c192a8228c0be/File/73606355343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083395fbc92e---47830726537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1171d8373a---93315652430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyupsifalibitkiler.com/resimler/files/55093179680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ladenuxidebanigimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhi8erk8gstqf0ha7ufckvr803/mavabajisumogetazekijaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fe224e96643d8bb8d290b825790a220/gefaduzarubasitasigajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/bekolexawirisaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d456ef0808---vivukuxixivowaneduzujise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xetnghiemadndanang.com/upload/userfiles/files/zupifewiderejesolikaweno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dochoiotovn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/nimadomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/xaremivamejip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c90be73a5---48179852060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goraku-sangyo.com/userfiles/file/nisabiginomapubunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/17872901096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=retail+management+notes+pdf+bangalore+universityPDF 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_off00010314.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10314 18304 bytes
SHA-256: 895b5e20f9523238fcc64ebb3828d14a87b12da0996198d39ff915e9df49745c
font_01_sfnt_off00013298.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13298 11304 bytes
SHA-256: d41fbfad42bc4d863402cff9827da40c22c2b4d7ffa790df6ee73d9b0cb9bb05
font_02_sfnt_off00014cbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1