Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91537865029ccd00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:21:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fea7e0a21db2ae4b477735f1a1dde78a SHA-1: d31c1aeb2129353fef22329c3ef0370355340ae3 SHA-256: 91537865029ccd00c8fd96c46904a95d1e361708aa95a858b02fc93fbafa442c
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 0.9968

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 http://hauptlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wizibo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e6c4a716f---59595767750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenld.com/userfiles/mibebiwojazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/ripexeweji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionemusicaviva.it/uploads/file/64452716583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50f4269597b7c72950e7a32118898d12/6246701453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/xaxedemorewuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c25844b8db9---zegexerejalefizadidodetif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaitraglaze.com/uploads/68457924234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcdc0ee59251f77ff99d796b979e3afd/banumewonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/19486746082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmf8se1isvq9tsfb4lsgq8urs2/77415890017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimetoor.com/basefile/bimetoorir/files/malugufopivinozuvagagozom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-riba.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7211834875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/sebusipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96f884bba84a5f60ebb02c68b059c88e/90731694058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b283df0690---xinotodosemix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110270026216---xaxizemesiboso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutricion-intravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87ddb0baea6e8c986674047fea93a025/5805994142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160939edbc9f02---gewasowadizimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/55988567907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mvjuoiv2dgkvbsoo523joo9tqf/bafawujazobofokugiporivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=computer+worksheets+for+grade+1+pdfPDF 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_off0000ce3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE3E 11064 bytes
SHA-256: ebf1b5cb3dc1f9dfb26b8f3198876fdf37ff4c032e6bd38cf46bf3f6e1436ac8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FB 17216 bytes
SHA-256: ac17ddffe087c3813d384ef11a7e2836927a614cb4f0417a5087f4b92406e613
font_02_sfnt_off000114b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1