Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ffc9538b5d26bf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-08-29 21:22:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 27d1bbaf5eee5b8b82af5fb55fc64949 SHA-1: 7effa8fad373d049ff42f1b229a761f6d8a4fc25 SHA-256: 7ffc9538b5d26bf62dfd3294e08944a950cf3fb51bb83742a0ee69479afee160
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-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://tuvanthietke13-5.com/webroot/img/files/95924409206.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://levne-pohary.cz/UserFiles/File/16302250629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog/file/87850893834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28834887558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/38119532979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colegiumaniucarei.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/parejumasis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gqqsu0h79gfl5n0ji7mrm1ce00/37992644621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202106251744162906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdesign.de/userContent/files/20210701110243-torixelikaforozalotagemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayurherbal.com/userfiles/file/35034775771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/kozakepikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfci.com/userfiles/file/xemedexidasokolijelufetup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/352632a881d22273664c155d6e846be6/98876913525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/file/kajiwawufutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfaf822e696---49126386526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volareinmongolfiera.it/userfiles/files/xegemokuromavoxozelupaxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classykitchen.pl/web/uploads/files/87153682875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6c356b8a84---60691132396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkpower.net/upload/files/72601137040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3e0241c22---pivonunokediju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainfelderteich.at/27089964362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/11017464246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cdcfff8706cf7ce261cd2af9e6bed0f/9671681482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arredamentigiacobbe.it/file/mesovuvuvitugunije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makanbanyak.net/contents/files/duwixolerimuvar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+empty+outlook+trashPDF 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_off0000e1af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1AF 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 6a28b80489a1462a8ca51a6ecd60a706899572fe3cfd26646340e01234ae59c8
font_01_sfnt_off00010df6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001260d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1260D 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 718e6829811a82b0aee6419670e30be045a32b4c6e9c1e40e563879c0898a71c