Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c2d4f43d8d930f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-08-18 07:32:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 1a13167ca40eb7922cc34747befbf982 SHA-1: 7ef8cba490551913c39fcb53141dce4d70cfb7ad SHA-256: 6c2d4f43d8d930f17b1e09e341600dc819698c663a07f347c8eccf81cf19f80f
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 0.9978

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 https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/47429737306.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/97893025474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c90e39b641c---bigidabajekesuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d2f11ec2f9573fa13a56550ce74680e/wezuvafipavaparike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premium-h.info/files/files/48107552216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3373d5b80c8e060b9059f1c387b5683/galutiwadapobefoxiwujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizaviation.com/uploads/files/27707842069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucavolpicella.it/userfiles/files/76673231959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/xibigodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/guguritejoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a24d52c54---66469868126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d568a9004d---dakavulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/81758926395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/nivukax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9eacf3e710af2bbd7c826fce12fb577d/jomovagapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610043b59f95f---radazutaruzora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/76473957778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yellowstonewildlife.com/32153839202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8969ab801---zaromoxilirubitujiruriban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herbwaterthailand.com/userfiles/files/2582433965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/11721943983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2469153c5f---darufutavinejiros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/nakokifosogugupikotowidob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=semicolons+and+colons+worksheet+with+answers+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_off0000cd1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD1E 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 149582163b4e5c2cf251f87648010b769261382f44d3afc95ab60b3ce996fcd1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F1 16644 bytes
SHA-256: 2d754eb7d87e813663dbe1f1bd9ec3f56c6cacb0dd3bfdf5eb41dee4d5834b8b
font_02_sfnt_off00011217.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11217 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1