Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 996d8a562776eeb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-06-24 18:25:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: c943b945121a49793e4b27ddc385c4c9 SHA-1: fc2e780a049acbfcefa5d0fb26ea8e6cc4929de7 SHA-256: 996d8a562776eeb41263c93bf62251c914e19d40c7e5b60db5c7e4ff8528f310
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 0.9998

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://assistance.uz/images/shared/file/xoduvupaxisikojavix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0bd61f21e---9947669758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086db710df8b---5579626321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c954058a3a0---jowexewuvirexidajarix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/63948895510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c16e32036a0---2760681314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11851499e8d19376cc39445a17de82aa/12197591407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ammn0anuadqciph254hum4mdf0/pirafemakukanopatabikan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/jubeberozofegudurem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/fofomukizinopetezinabepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/98733247765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ed27pd1bhvsk2knf6kj0s3ceg/jukulufivemodebamukotepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/18351915038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eed5d3cd09---biboreladivawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eraucheta.ru/uploads/file/wonewujigavuvinekisaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45989865801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=neet+answer+key+2020+f6PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000dcc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCC3 5384 bytes
SHA-256: 409c669f76c00620d00ab431b05bee8a5ac1ff6a33ef1b62295949f231bfb2bb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF44 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 330420a4dc4fa89ea9f665787588044d0d9a115d1d8fa824922d1d70696a9a1b
font_02_sfnt_off0001158e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1158E 16164 bytes
SHA-256: ead7fd593d7f5feef6f283420e9b55f8fa4552f107c64b0063d474dd3355abd8