Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82ab7a7efb954ac0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:18:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 5b437e7f1e1e5661f51b536fca335381 SHA-1: a403ec130dedc94e0a32bad8fe7048521dc21d21 SHA-256: 82ab7a7efb954ac043261b428aa818cc9450303bd2a1f2d061d9ed28834cbe9c
172 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, presents a deceptive download button and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=paggamit+ng+malaking+titik+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • http://thehonourride.ca/clients/c/c2/c2a221447f3e921143a55eca482c8289/File/6780195593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15c4e837cba6fa5f28484bd8dabe7d14/wadukiderugowujegadidaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/77432871715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/86786927550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/19115437850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergreendentistryva.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40865781828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abb056b2c1c02f7fa981e5c30effeef4/1773221983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b0493aadb20091045e8b0590e24c39a/bupapuvelanuvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://excitechem.com/userfiles/file/97258636226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/36751978510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39633aadcf4eeea87bb829c053255370/jigezepekikuxufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a563fb04333dec9a6c579758545e963b/zugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infoegrafica.com/userfiles/files/zaderanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e60166278b9---48138417676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/bugurep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/posidamijakinowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movesearchesuk.com/userfiles/file/77077488444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6oe0rs6ae9hiqdd6bgnbtap9ll/boroganekotuwisenunifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/frla84dok2iptv4rdmt43sjpia/72208658267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gb6hcj0s3t40eet7f8utign9rn/49550528407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajessie.com/seadata/data/uploads/img/file/162658388046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d43a27e905626df3b748bc61265bb4d/vugitaroverixedokolof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b621e436732---64038322213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blugarden.eu/file/revijomineroge.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_off00011728.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11728 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012f3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F3F 10732 bytes
SHA-256: cd3c17e6ab3a773744e969bc4171ba3cd9cd2f8ca66beabde87b28a01186e47b
font_02_sfnt_off000147c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147C5 18016 bytes
SHA-256: df0b5bfe621c0a2eb57d96ca6b2f2669fe665971ba4690cb3686dee7d28e9465