Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9074c73ab4bfb05d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

133.0 KB Created: 2021-06-13 08:05:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 339dbd2f7d61599175e65512257af781 SHA-1: 9cb12e0bd721005f7e3ee17b025be64d49a1ffb1 SHA-256: 9074c73ab4bfb05d1523a8b07c0eefa2103bce096e79828fed7008342f61fd04
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 0.9997

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=arena+of+valor+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949cc963b29---lekipijitilalutosirotogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5baa8e675a---larewilajofexotojudomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e471918f1---tuvatovadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lordpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/73245415777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kfpm9sv72mo1dtusvc7tnqet9p/9983152809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/pefixebupaditoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07e479d9be3d93f36fe5689b5e172cd0/20623060083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4054l6eul8a9mu3rlmqoq4c5e5/60676021066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc501d3e5a---61935920904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097a7a4c3a9e---44783236549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ab206aa0595b61ae103541091b31511/wejaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf328092aa4---12720105376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84jmocc2fqn1a7omak0grpt9ul/88608127561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f31d62318b---zufetirisatomazebedav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794720a018c---tifeketimezaruvelisoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encoregallery.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b191230646e11cfecf923e265f06457f/bigijozitotumisabodip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/84747200831.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00019471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19471 14136 bytes
SHA-256: 69fe574bfd91402a9df3d544b44e03963822e567dbdea69bc09bf6687175fdee
font_01_sfnt_off0001c21e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C21E 5120 bytes
SHA-256: f9cf114a78d9d9e663e8b8f66b69d60f95a7e1cbaf8dabf37b06eeaf2b5bb45d
font_02_sfnt_off0001d380.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D380 17304 bytes
SHA-256: aa96bd5e2d84bf4ba514ebf0cb33c4a9aba1fc5784bb371bd117500343f0a68b