Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84bc4c791e8ada64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:08:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 892af461c8125e4ccdbbb0e43c4da8b3 SHA-1: 8be7d273d17cdf35fc2aadc26e2522fdf324b658 SHA-256: 84bc4c791e8ada64fb6d9c0625355219029b4ec4020edf856bebd0b7d7c4c41f
204 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. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. 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 0.9974

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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 http://prosquash.by/data/51909649525.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiomarazzi.eu/userfiles/files/dizafixivigapagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/46128888209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machinegroup.ru/img/outer/files/pidiwugazaxijuwufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smartlandgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24022528967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xexafokevawuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ddfe3ecda---16425010772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkmeiqi.com/admin/ckfinder/upfile/files/69199516589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portableandcool.com/files/files/51873219897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfe6f1252b---947667799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chikatere.com/Upload/files/vifutiwiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d487b5168fb905bf949769b52cd1b703/15260888090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01b5cf9a95e03f49e3bb665e58d8fb8c/94510385828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/lavubukulapazikini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/640aed5f4cad09114402e938bf6e49de/82608299939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/42759952585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/nifupojisipajaxuruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newline-eg.com/userfiles/file/83509757866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corporatiegids.nl/uploads/files/58873516484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nkoac1q98kt788mppru674d1l/pawajuxogovenewor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/xanafuvebonoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f049e8f5f2afcd40fa4fa669a092fd5a/47782410771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/49724210093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b18299ec13---pivote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=reduce+pdf+file+to+small+sizePDF 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_off0000d9a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9A8 17756 bytes
SHA-256: f7091c6023fa0e777e7f58f9dbc21654a05b878371c785298f626cc3f7ad04a1
font_01_sfnt_off000107f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F1 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 1fd0eb8a97a40aac928dca52cedab253b473b5e15fc8bcde2aea451c7cc66dc9
font_02_sfnt_off000120cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1