Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ad952693c9b2de1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-08-04 02:30:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 7b4bb4f0fbfb98927054c8e21c752b0c SHA-1: 450cf7845839005b1a7b97c410369169cd600f08 SHA-256: 7ad952693c9b2de1af199aeef6df737d481011167a5b0f428465e26dc1753831
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 0.9990

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=the+witcher+books+%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B1+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/watatenamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/66619065963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://needychild.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kisekupinakuxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46dc984fe302367acdbd6c96cc1b8244/17747857495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strategieb2b.com/userfiles/file/52040719136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranhdaquyhn.com/uploads/news_file/67003478100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugajukevera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac07580165d---sudupubokuxejamewofavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/nojevovabelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountcalvary76.com/clients/9/90/9062e1c9f2360b2cedac6e2854879500/File/topopigizeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76463854066ae049aea2aabbdaed8167/rakodetojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pozitron-s.ru/userfiles/file/juvos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0e7029afb5884d8e38ffa6fd7f7f85/pigesadesivajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c376e3a3c---jajemetomikosanadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topas.lt/userfiles/file/64451816730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5649118e6cb7560264efc60601e563b0/36642097762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0kupejcad956har5iumf7hnm0/manud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b4049a097---tapaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39c4e1f463f57b5a12afe9b48f861ba8/jitiwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c0ab7b54a39e845684f80c028b3e540/96396082541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aytekinpolatel.com/image/files/64769906603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/fijuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f7d75e743---25244820794.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_off0000ff5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF5E 11784 bytes
SHA-256: 80dd3385e8e760df761c2d4f5f78ab24c26897d8dc3d6c469cf48bb4813802d2
font_01_sfnt_off00011b57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B57 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 8a2cc8138b9fdac2a19bf6e42c11dd046e9c727c75bdb1633c746ac344621269
font_02_sfnt_off00014754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14754 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1