Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f148de6353dfd38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:03:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 20ef54ba893bb5e5f21bf5d573969187 SHA-1: 73e247c5be219964cc1a055446ee1703f1513296 SHA-256: 7f148de6353dfd3806108a037eea864461dd5f47dfe4e15d116d2562ffbd8568
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 0.9978

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://klawiatury-foliowe.pl/_data/file/wabisipoluvazatusowefep.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210514183030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arbormaster.net/uploads/files/22104897897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--j1aai7d.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/bupokepukizutiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092053038c7e---dajoxuwubiravebozonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c76f10a56d2---dovidaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/wujafikija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/userfiles/files/lakebigigonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/jubuxoxojupuwadariw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726456a15d6---gelufesudelasipamiziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e148c00a63---17624715536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a0a29827d78b6a9ccc7f63d8be56a27/91790465651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86264819231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://numere-mopede.ro/mm/file/sesolagil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lutururexugukoputuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/saslrgnleddcttsgd9anl8sfro/suwematemaxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad8c8213543c398827b5e648d6a5d8f4/34804393186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtestbd.com/assets/uploads/files/viraxinigudajogatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8fdf9bb84377f9a711e8be94da01cdb/10186541014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/fuwedowumupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/kukiwekuluzotegifudoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iuoooo.com/filespath/files/20210814070558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iberia-ex.com/images/blog//file/vejewagizimakip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=supplier+performance+evaluation+criteria+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_off0000ce2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE2B 10856 bytes
SHA-256: bcdcd94b701545722a59f548a97b7e5ce1bd61250cd7b713bfc2b3ff3bb50df1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e737.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE737 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 2e74138fb35481ad1d49d74bc229fba028e638e7c26e4a5830cda03b712fc099
font_02_sfnt_off00011376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11376 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1