Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 781f5eb161daea84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-07-25 15:12:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 721a949ae9cb451a1d52ad670004970e SHA-1: ad03375d2ec38e95faabaf3c2d9c96c82449ce4a SHA-256: 781f5eb161daea84a56b7019ae6cc6548870c26bb196927145e8ea9739180a37
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 0.9953

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://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc9fa2303833d795e1ff7a714645820e/zixarez.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1f50a4123---1132106016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6febfd52ef---89702360763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/55979403397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nlmqb8m4gk4sq2lbmt87fqu2cn/kujuvipobixifakuvugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/guten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021061711594571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84a872d20973aee50f67844931b35253/nopubivafiwufifuxiwifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b38c30879b99bc994f59e342c4e261b/masegafanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tragiaocolamsapa.com/userfiles/image/file/mifuzidubipuvovupivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f4a8d46de---bexobulubitaxaramovefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d227c00db57---307695632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/gezelajatikap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/59715696612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/81811242421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulendengin.com/upload/ckfinder/files/65820762837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/2096174203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buvuropowurosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/65714633685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021071304515918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70a015534946132227a8ac9f01bad2ef/75171948595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/lokodibewemilimagosirag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/35180191489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=solidworks+2013+sheet+metal+tutorial+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_off0000cd2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD2E 15932 bytes
SHA-256: 618a335526f7136e654266a9cbce48d450385e22e0947099dfaceeb233930a8c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f65d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF65D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E74 11476 bytes
SHA-256: e236099e52bccd23c291955f4dee72ad7c90ef2ac68b556d6c03db1efb9b1387