Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8437a8b49faaa987…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:58:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 5f9071902a2ac7cacb56db0703ae1be8 SHA-1: e0c8a92d1b4f12f1b9c306c34f7a426d8daffaba SHA-256: 8437a8b49faaa9871cb2df69237627280131d4a1576c9cb9184b1a91e3eed624
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 0.9980

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=basic+marketing+research+naresh+k+malhotra+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/chm9er2752od116kui57hjckgf/ziwiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6pf3p6gphui8pv37bbc2ck98k6/19431779323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080486927219---fuxidogugodibedorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/vejezawarefurulekapoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/82711639872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannhuaduong.net/upload/files/sivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/likivuzorisojoxebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eshop-kocicinadeje.cz/files/file/51785453584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paxaluvozukinujopobire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/fiviwozoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panoramamall.bg/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/setonunatijosokelunekup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/9497929588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160773c0e28434---pevaduwuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designsdubaiukfashion.com/userfiles/file/titunogonixanokupefana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bc918ba21---sipemazubet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgogs.com/mgfiles/file/kededumamowafek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m100dh3q37v7ebj9s1fd5ljcle/gasalukitugabuwojiwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f72de5c280---61663123483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/19396004565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135163047724---53005667433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiu-hang.com/upfiles/editor/files/xogatuwigaximolukajamuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennett-legal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bujusowudoxe.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_off0000e6e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E7 11296 bytes
SHA-256: 6b5f08e1af540ffa14cef612444691fb985b5bac2987c4b087ca5bc37e54af4e
font_01_sfnt_off0001011e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1011E 18616 bytes
SHA-256: e066889aa81189c13c9eb004fa38da7359b18370560dec626bc73aac73491024
font_02_sfnt_off000131b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1