Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cc7aea117fd7b80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-06-23 09:43:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 46ed504e0ec2c5ee90a08c762c14780e SHA-1: 8e59c6b95d112e140b125695cb19ba04ee2b6a10 SHA-256: 7cc7aea117fd7b802de49dd4e3c0ae495ae39b52ad08017088ea796760fd56fc
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://isosklo.cz./uploads/64348048162.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a294522ee12---86379113073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929408b01da---97973569990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1303218012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05db4b5f1e5a8742abeef11ec192fd67/28714142513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dd3dl0ncprtpr89q4o2od7jjv/68232194144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/91058832501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/71101598160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/febazelosofolobika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859fe1abe57---58202412081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7d701f1ca1676fd7fa38254321946a5/megawubelebexefofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/xuzofofutegogexuvogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084375f665fe---2079608755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609934f58eeb6---mozosimanubex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c82b72a768---65849039914.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/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=weeknd+starboy+downloadPDF 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_off0000b8e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8E4 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 96b59e9a95a824639fa98e4c713fac6a1d3001dfb4865098f6e1f4ce0b1e9db7
font_01_sfnt_off0000cada.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCADA 11568 bytes
SHA-256: 1b226e786b26bd51d0185c799f3f749b74a008d6c7f6e88e967fefb630e02082
font_02_sfnt_off0000f266.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF266 16144 bytes
SHA-256: f0a8b786da721c7415a59d91fbce3b20bbb98ea32e48857ac1ff22d53b00ec29