Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73e645bd66961bb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-06-03 09:34:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 33ff3a3939dc45d1a08b9694ad66569a SHA-1: fdfcfa53e8f88a2fa397a5ddd45e471c411b4906 SHA-256: 73e645bd66961bb045bfe51d7ef27b8e9caa4ca7476ceea07dde36c236e5dac7
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://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a9afed289---32441409949.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ba0a2b255767e4fa157fe687fc61bc0/gudopuvopab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2db5be37e6---pebaririfun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/dopetezaromelamoganis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b292b74d44d---muxubuvuvidodipiwubuton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f7b76c17f3---31326617372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb89a46936a2aff1f8e1b29f9b0edea1/95743123653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travisreunion.com/clients/1/1d/1d9c560ef9ee6310b862f4c9d288d7bd/File/59072572428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55b94f473beafe9b9751cb6f8e54496d/90707676771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caa71e0ba3---17327831705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6740bd28f03f7bd5952dbd44c3ca5c38/selukusavipipizirelulakas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607175af2e084---filazadiwuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/43609890118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75ebc60e8a---14739798447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a778cb523d---16755492505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3e4amvsdo21odvkoc9nbr40op/59505775573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=vision+prelims+test+series+schedulePDF 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://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_off0000eb8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8B 5068 bytes
SHA-256: 61fde65b98a222a70a2511e3ce029abe3678ef94a8d9b02dfda05d26ec6b69ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000fca5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA5 12008 bytes
SHA-256: d632d58d9c30be1b2d8fbf90045ec98c874bf0ab805d118364ee4e7969e56d46
font_02_sfnt_off00012494.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12494 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 541fa2b6826b0add99b7d5a173ef1e6a5567607b5192f75b810eb17d6a563501