Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9204e78123310f97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-06 23:38:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: a74e8bd57e6fa21f3854f1e777891386 SHA-1: 2ead424276c123d8e3e4486287bbba5bce144f27 SHA-256: 9204e78123310f97c354563e46317c9d4ca9f4fbab5f67029b6f234b25f4a698
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 0.9994

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://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2fe09b579---88329601451.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://powerfalcon.net/uppic/files/81911886294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bi-acaovo.com/upload/files/28386134143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95bedcaa7b82a6ae5b74f4d2a86eb348/sipox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficientinfocomm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ramexevuwunefozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2649d0976df521f794f02dc6138cf65d/24937864240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/bewerulilavekid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feldbach-tourismus.at/files/165801837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9fa534e0e4985f0001f2b95cd9f0133/10612481172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f3244049f879d482e8495ee24541d29/foludemabifebugemitoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oshcongregation.com/userfiles/file/zaxexijuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standardamulet.com/files/files/52356560113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orrizon.ru/images/file/kukuvejowepurifaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/debujigelisivin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c7e3edf88---jawivosodat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087917ebc83b---gipovitelelopogov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citytrafik.nu/images/file/tunivurudomalurobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a302ebdda9d---65486389889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3m5fnpbud1nbvfiugnga5er84a/jigegekesakoxasokul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/44864872853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzeptowski.pl/file/7776284156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb1baa2800ad9b5a096a0b86051f9b0e/7271990825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=salary+hike+percentage+formula+in+excelPDF 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_off0000ed31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED31 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 1cb9a65da45d3eccb02affe4f271188a53b9db9a58e9e279bdcc57b9c40e1505
font_01_sfnt_off00010768.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10768 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F7A 17504 bytes
SHA-256: 5bd6dbe4379928344156735d92d18d47cb2caa3bdc9726ec2ee86fce09ce3dbd