Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a4bb76373b53f9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:58:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 4067607cd8c395ad46c61c7e07d12e9c SHA-1: 6034ccf88202a559440ab56b79bc1a03d37df217 SHA-256: 7a4bb76373b53f9ac648f6ea68258ec206669b6b7e49ce6c437aacee1fe26a82
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 0.9974

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://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/pebofubevik.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dimensionshoppe.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74827631308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/pamefosipejebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schnauzermountainminiatures.com/clients/17729/File/34805257906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orikon.net/Images_upload/files/9918089983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74dedbfa09---95058295801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/46576240315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debden.org/userfiles/file/11203706900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e141302eb---sisilekepumuzaloje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybomnuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/xuzogugutidusifevut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/getebaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biovuspharma.net/userfiles/files/2633362414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5oi4ndu50mjb44ch18213p18rm/47190122923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fkcfgl90oh8vm9njo3h4b97gr5/94121519039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hairtransplantmangalore.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/xamelasuwexoxisifew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primehorseproperty.com/userfiles/files/mivuvezivipuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pbri.in/ACP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13681324501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honghuibio.com/d/files/23746554685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607585c229b3f---wefawufolikebodovajodof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac4001cc56---gameje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/nitiguxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcvizovice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93197374141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopgraeagle.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/92743642667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/56663143381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=oxford+flight+planning+and+monitoring+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_off0000d4ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4ED 19484 bytes
SHA-256: a2fd334cc273a5d0868a009a05fab1ad046086cf76c911f6ff53a978f82862d3
font_01_sfnt_off000107ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC5 10772 bytes
SHA-256: e2bad4cf91f05f87c3012035b23e7b7b9921939b9240a7c8cfb5ee9dd4e0e7bb