Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9539b57d2729c300…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-07-28 14:20:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: f5a8fafb2b75672b6be4a8a1f2f70f35 SHA-1: 776f44b0d8ff7950a4741eb0da9ed3e5445d7d06 SHA-256: 9539b57d2729c300b64d2d5fbe77caa322c09f79547c8e209633210ceceb72fc
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 0.9947

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://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/11499848726.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa16a04eca3---xepizipubekaxedaxalokate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyextractor.com/d/files/newefepubexelomugigoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ec06692ca---94764931300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/zepizegajokejufopix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/tavosuxejawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/41829153523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/586acae7ec729c344cafd3b88165b2b3/bedopixozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cebd4ef1a---84184865929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd0d3d135b---vumobosotuzuruluwenaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northstarbaptisttyler.com/clients/a/a4/a4b4c2e389351fb2dee96c3f727c6a57/File/45089664866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be24uvlho4o3l925pdvjjp2pav/tumomovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyshiying.com/d/files/28701984081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpunh1a565rof6mkkochs5c4it/vilisimorizipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmkm84ja5f8cd22bt0iv8tskh3/47567689491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyanite.tv/userfiles/file/18386630682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/ginupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/vikavexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-url12shio-turbo.com/contents//files/foxaparesisibapujovekager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reniuved.it/file/75959511300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f763c4bb5---tenaruxaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/19179035072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=dagubi+brushes+for+illustrator+free+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ffba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFBA 10960 bytes
SHA-256: dd014dbcabdf377e83cf82e631e9895b425bcf937e1f9bd0896fa3fbcae128f0
font_01_sfnt_off000118f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F1 19004 bytes
SHA-256: 5ea166a192ad0d8c40bd105768698cb769be988ec5e09167be50e6d666cf49f2
font_02_sfnt_off00014b50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B50 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001635d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1635D 1860 bytes
SHA-256: 562d39cc93351683f3420870a5578826c1285db13c691c08f99be18f4980e560