Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cea82fe11acb9a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:53:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: e8d9a3a543fae91e20348189dedea2bb SHA-1: a297f5a592b1dc1297ecdfeda25c3b333f87d2e1 SHA-256: 6cea82fe11acb9a9bfa5a264d8b0da013bc04bf7a8483601e30de71640095f25
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 0.9973

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bank+po+exam+book+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/katunipusadifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96c6b22a5a1d3ca5ed86851a332a36c9/74167395099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgrappresentanze.eu/userfiles/files/36341852100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quizai.com/uploads/files/30525354976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dkh58apkdvcuavv44e9pmagnl7/83141597680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b0db4e30b---sapokizuxojojepituxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barnesfamilyre-union.com/clients/52050/File/93796219182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/21950414650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/sopokusibixedibanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wheatland1971.com/clients/25033/File/93019739012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d4b59f23c---46240113278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6292e90bc5ea7bf0502cda5128ffc4c/66181874973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb46ed0baa389356681039164baf8471/21022507938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcb365f133c811fda32dbeee62b3ccc1/fafefavapiwogepesixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/1971856713611f14ee55755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd04832e0e---94669712667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090fc9dcdd8b---61787340170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebrandstudio.com/userfiles/file/duratafadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610da50cd8c2f---bokakofum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/witijisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/zowasawil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siphonicflowmandiri.com/upload/files/wusolupofew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9adb32de46219471a14d8dd3dc010bc/47018496212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1817d3e774028a4fe4588905ee8680c5/tubixez.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_off0000c176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC176 10772 bytes
SHA-256: c7e4fec2d10d92206cb9d47cedb8a73f90cdea46081d361318fc6053ad7afe7d
font_01_sfnt_off0000da18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA18 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f22a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF22A 19476 bytes
SHA-256: 40c6b73093384b4f9543db1350f8d199b6b99838c38d7753aae266ca2a4a4f65