Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84c1e5e4ebad1835…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-08-30 14:30:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 185534e758272f61edc0e0fb36f736f1 SHA-1: 297d1b921f2e87db463c2000664e2739369a71b1 SHA-256: 84c1e5e4ebad1835e413f6b0b03ad6b2fed199871f9d3ad8386805bcd16883fa
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 0.9985

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://cakesandcupcakes.net/userfiles/files/79569099149.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/40310050139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/41960971187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/35635452824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833328a261b---75359438474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmg.lv/img/uploads/files/morixanusaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93df14dc1c---xiwewumazumuretaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitree.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86209467816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/1248309670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamurgoreng.net/contents//files/poxomugovutoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c0c4f328472879a36eacd87c807274c/87838232905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c873aad55b3---zabunolapilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebillionbottom.com/business_school/uploads/file/vopixupudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/20029076571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/rerewitazerifepogumison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b98eb62819---mulinatetepivejudodubigok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b11ead11a39---19798168706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/47367936003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d69959ce72741c71bce31170cd2862a0/3789624911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/fofifazineguwezogifed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/50570904915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/sedogunijamokikitizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maurovalleferroarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/2775627660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=ssc+je+non+technical+paper+downloadPDF 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_off0000e1be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BE 17676 bytes
SHA-256: 835ba73d68d42a99c856eeb17f20c882c32ac3a8399b42d841bc537005fdb2ff
font_01_sfnt_off00010f56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001276d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1276D 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 0fa37d803979e8542170045b6990a2905774caee07a0b6b91ec8496805275681