Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9855a8f2502f9deb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-06-09 00:49:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 52bcdacf5e5257ee0b08d3731d8a85d2 SHA-1: 0011b2b36ddceb51fb62363c76160ee945a81875 SHA-256: 9855a8f2502f9deb065a01b361d3c5692b72953ce94dde580254b5e9fe9eb579
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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=infographic+mockup+psd+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a8e479e0d---geraniwote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6p6fcijmgrdnu485crifr6ucg/43280761258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d88b85bc02---podimubedoboje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/13082040461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beepost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/7549668673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuchscars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93045b649fa5205bea62289a662d843d/45989127002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071702f3f95b---wuguladol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/walavivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8uq3l3g6ps3plqe6qcjkacgti2/67734706583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43f40e8af1a4424a103ada0339ec40b9/waputifezonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pvk8b9g81frrfsdq4qigumf0i0/549939750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924f9e597a1---fezadasisekaforenugexuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/nubedejufulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://washchienluoc.com/upload/file/belozukuzofaxefube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7440f5349206ed34caaf6ca2d687bf16/52083227814.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ffeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFEB 5660 bytes
SHA-256: 0eb7b8e82f1085f7ed45100fa4901b6d8fd7acd58cd2155d4d2234ed21ab9cae
font_01_sfnt_off00011314.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11314 12064 bytes
SHA-256: 9eefac6cf6166d08d12cd5a7f3ce2958848401533531f13258e7a37628d5a736