Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83c022e9c612a6ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-08-14 13:34:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 29343105f357e955b533b07b304a84e5 SHA-1: b73d0de7ee9c7bfe81d3d3c728aa2a32a3cdbce8 SHA-256: 83c022e9c612a6aed5d49cc44b8ca9ebdedcb16632a4adc110651c086fc3c247
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 0.9986

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=universe+sandbox+free+version+no+download PDF link annotation
    • http://tsrmvolontari.it/userfiles/files/wulikek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e5d04d6a65536acca9916793d17190d/mewulozevuditewoxasuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mttrasportisrl.it/dati/upload/file/89736730414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timesofbangla.com/uploads/files/nefeditijerubut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff3b5a7f201732733c2195a4ffd57ef2/luxebujixed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d84n2tdvap874f5alo63h7pbrv/salelazafelupuvuzofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809b3dd2dad---23398185093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/61853316172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/68298768314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanilkwanla.com/uploads/files/26256672251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88e575108f52ed8af36292df48ae8911/23019950514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/kelixabixusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e331b5c6c2---2520128882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nada70.org/userfiles/file/32147634319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxcec.org/userfiles/file/94041940576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607377054023f---kodijogigukuxeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o0listf444eu9kr8qq56da835k/86666103672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mr0j3urekd96pk7hn7usu4omui/fulesixisubamane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727fd1e7e1c---67898929894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungbuloon.com/media/ftp/file/gasuzimitomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20369599e197616010127def3d9e7ffa/49194932795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roanfamily.net/clients/0/01/01b24a6c100194bbc8678883f3cd4a53/File/64271304269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f48ac353ca866d8ca3d1535b1ccbae2/tawanodudezagukixolap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079534679386---xatususivupiw.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_off0000f49a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF49A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010cb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CB1 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 43ab057adc3b008a010819c56d7a6eb26871787e7e732e2cc76cca09a9611d09
font_02_sfnt_off0001253c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1253C 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 26c8b8ff06e7c267e4a4d26a1075d3098182220d7f0d0f0d9f0a82526d8a22a0