Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 901b44305bb016b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-06-21 19:41:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 8df051f937e7ff585e9840c4e3746353 SHA-1: 2360f531216f972c81ba392b267869a781ee85a1 SHA-256: 901b44305bb016b76ddf3f58e158b2c72d908682163a21b5b6b34aebe5796291
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-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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=peninsula+english+movie+download PDF link annotation
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afdb13dbc1e2554f588183c2ba0b0cd7/naxenifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ee1d851ac7c8e1c3a895d42c4e515c0/jufeginuvudokerupuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d6669f46d---56773985800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dutoxizexuleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074761a260bd---koruxata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890bf6d280c---zosoraniwibilelejaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082997b19d3d---moxadulinowosewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ce7c81088---55698655198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074688928cbf---tenezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72ccd52668a8e758bcc1f1f35834497a/xupuwiwaxakixekipaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizit-k.net/uploads/editor/files/zubot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608853e48a320---69975186494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vezedupiraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/kuwilibowobowalol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/zalivobajiviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michaelwilliamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/61930393720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6519bd9d8dc47f222fac39f1677e5f6/6429344969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d9af1bbce1b773d8d7023f2f85e988d/12843742909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8897b15079122b910b0f8bfd77a874a5/kutemadazasezudewuwibazim.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eef7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF7 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 3733358d2d4f59b9131be296d6b8c6c8f0b38c96be1fed87e664e43f734fc31c
font_01_sfnt_off000100eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100EB 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 3c52ff8b48ee7c4c9db1d3fba2d2a4283de9ffba6d7b4195f918c101065ae0bf