Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a7fd27ac2aa907b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-06-14 11:58:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: e3ea7967e3af0b92d9b970017106f9ec SHA-1: 400c2a8ff83fb2817a5d2cdd47c652f064fb11c6 SHA-256: 8a7fd27ac2aa907bf64f1aca46b8066f1b2e21e0e160afe051db069b7f9ee4f3
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 0.9998

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=book+jacket+mockup PDF link annotation
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba9039b00f7---66369638438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5646beed0f---27687179180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d1273fee4---99700427522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/pusumul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c5021fded---puxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9rb6n95iaslhe2mfq4mbnuq3f9/63933206509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f27046eba4ad98a4f76f1fad7f6a4e71/37107131949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f624745c3c4a6b1d51bb6e69bcd140ad/12056291953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immopolignano.lu/images/rubimejalejekivapelarugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76251055054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094166534e98---temurixobamedob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66382217e4---kafavuzowuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a364a431b39---punomiluretu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a0530d777---mujifemafoxozixizixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.net/images/uploads/files/zevajojizore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da9e24462136398fb91d51042a42774d/75419050518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lo1pnl16j2b7qc6cs9hetm7n90/84014655978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a7dc017f73ec73d45817fcde94c98d6/diduxotuxebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e498.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE498 4964 bytes
SHA-256: 31c74c5b1ad155342764dfda1c45b3c63ebb74b421d20a09f113a598516bc727
font_01_sfnt_off0000f577.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF577 10616 bytes
SHA-256: d78b0df6c33ba22853ddc8a95f0835379928320c1d098dac1054a0f357ce51f1