Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f8a0f8b28d71934…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-08-28 03:26:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 6930aac9b2decfefc719a9aed4641fda SHA-1: 337a5164e6d862f30b59cda7b810e45d7da0ca20 SHA-256: 7f8a0f8b28d71934c06893b6e58dc1474e342bf7369cd87c24a4b135f1fb9765
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

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 0.9976

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ssc+je+2019+question+paper+civil+engineering+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fdd974efd9---64253853250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3dabd8c07e18bba0f04d1ac1668a43f/25205622252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/66360196160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameranichietsu.com/luutru/files/vuvexenubeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifo-sea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96054041919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/fupiwatisiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da5d80ab1b3---sejutolixosawux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/66136423106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitacanes.com/uploads/files/tozewilorutivelodukilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/tiwomelarinadenarimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fructusartis.com/i/File/puwapuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/rexodedepinojerilopebefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0bc7feee61---doravinuzagaduvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95412928899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b67a14127---60367782123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/61926740024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcff5fa3098---gupegemexizemodis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n1ucqmfgce033edqgemskkleb2/95990820354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maiodi.com/userfiles/files/42739426206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9ebb6d889f---73777647254.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9144d4b0720448ecc486c63642481c5e/36256671353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/87585373423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5c2d011d98---sarekuzizimipuliwiputasa.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_off0000c2f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2F5 11772 bytes
SHA-256: 0f44b25e15e5e2ff705ae77a82358e6afabbd9c49e5ece924bf011efc0a73586
font_01_sfnt_off0000debf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEBF 17336 bytes
SHA-256: 7c7c6e90cd2667b5e8cb1f4914f0d3b9f69b82840cff7ae2a2dfbc422dbaba38
font_02_sfnt_off00010bad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BAD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1