Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7393c33e5c056164…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-06-16 03:10:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 77ace5eb8c41cbe77dab032d021d7761 SHA-1: 35e9b9b8066b51b261586406486854eb570e0e1a SHA-256: 7393c33e5c0561641e310397e70553a753dc257f1116254ba913ec0a9dff99fc
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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ekadantaya+by+shankar+mahadevan+mp3+download PDF link annotation
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/sofudowovakinewoxesar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e8e0ac81308e6f1462f7b8ef09584ca/kajinuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleangroupbd.com/ck/upload/files/37539879997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94795ec74af7a344daa8186955db7c90/78091816743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5123ad2ed3---jibuxupeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070325d62477---83533719893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8fd81c49c---29781241044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bpu3ec2ier7hhn7liufp84bllr/41197996810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/20840759776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86470c516cf15d65418f1376e3a66576/pojigigadowoxudef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fck3qa2ccugukq6rq8nb4un180/10548033782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5fd2928228---rufekemuzerokirazefolusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36111579028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipublichouse.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69676009856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pegf2ioqqek8ju1v3o8hmit3bc/ledexejik.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
    • 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_off0000d50c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD50C 5780 bytes
SHA-256: bc2fac3a29e9c6dc626f1e0863f473cbf491ff0135d73f302e62524997c2da3b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AC 11664 bytes
SHA-256: cd0ab024180f1139a5e6d18feb229445f3229ba9d0fe9f090745ca3d57e1f49d
font_02_sfnt_off00011041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11041 16424 bytes
SHA-256: 7b1b72b9d6cdf8c2fc5ec268b6586b561bec1fead5fd03f87268d8315133b0a7