Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9529410ff2849c17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.1 KB Created: 2021-06-14 13:04:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: ff95fa4978f16705d89ac3f391befb44 SHA-1: a80b4256922df05c02e37fbd3d4cb3262bd4c188 SHA-256: 9529410ff2849c17d8ca53b14784383c12b0ba2e1233acf74093b52d98c16743
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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sherlock+holmes+2+tamilrockers PDF link annotation
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbae3cdef43f04c1138dfb9adc87eafd/wunetaxobufewasawunat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a41244f0d---pobogiriramixovopifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/govurivujuwifezuwosekozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/nolefedetifodoten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lok3rugfahhchr7fe9ikadmjil/62866819227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1de02cb35---19335802090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akhhubqc1q1e531l7stevitm42/gozurofojid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081693d32978---98215980478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0d88e9d82---gomopebamavabema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b71bb7aab6---12608088802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/16052422362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/44464593147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/67677293655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/38066459051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608deef3c5c72---telirepaxozexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608382779dee8---49782537841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/vexuminodozigig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e23f78262---91522486853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0A 5336 bytes
SHA-256: e4051caa2c31d42881fd6644f3a54fb3935e1b112719cf4e7d47a3bcea964039
font_01_sfnt_off00010efc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EFC 3720 bytes
SHA-256: b91f3c26f37c28538ed09035cbea6f9221827f1e30b50c452f08cc820bcc167b
font_02_sfnt_off00011a5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A5F 11484 bytes
SHA-256: 7e060bc5fb0d0c8cb00f33dfc8cce681583268aa87bf86a4092bd72bfcdbd5a8
font_03_sfnt_off000141cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141CF 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd
font_04_sfnt_off00015739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15739 11952 bytes
SHA-256: 7cf4a46ce2886eed7ca728dd504aa28b8985af61e46464bafbe6c434a6b2b23a