Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c122b664210d7b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-06-17 21:58:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: ef073b2505ea342170d984f4027ae312 SHA-1: a209848494fdb954e2f90a694e7f84311b918fca SHA-256: 7c122b664210d7b561ed78ca75d8e919e61b8b0322ed47553145c8de0f9182d0
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-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+ultimate+raptor+simulator+2 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7cac5e96f7---wigofofilajetisegogizobej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49b49f1db23b76e037c45ed371991ffa/49185272108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb72a91e26db13bdbe88d04c5f671e04/26177440878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c586256f622---naxogumotetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5330aecef41d6552eda17d0ae7e14f7b/5300917471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c871a40a791---29357268714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8qe8533p1kteljuai3pl442f6/56510960564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cae25e41e6---59170040631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/29543673026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/jijaduvapawigisezop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eff32f2bdcb589bbf723ac36784c7753/gonipotazow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/88571261287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0878c91f912552d2959438574957032/59008283413.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e18a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE18A 5328 bytes
SHA-256: f06520a97e92cf9608db0125eea495cd43fed58e9d68eb7a0651cc39ff24b2cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3AA 11048 bytes
SHA-256: d468dc99b4779c9ae8121bf1bf940fe34a18f4a76c568384ea57a15eef0a5d63