Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a00953dbeb633ee7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-06-09 14:44:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 0c2b5f274ff0cf457ea87d3679254a5b SHA-1: fdfe9ed54859d1e936982f711b808d5069ebed34 SHA-256: a00953dbeb633ee71492d789eb1f31c6d90ec3252b82ca2859e64cb17e39cbe0
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 0.9996

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=grand+theft+auto+san+andreas+apk+and+obb+download PDF link annotation
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ep5l2k3bvga9449e104rrgq2v/nodovatomotonadovibawejez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/senofasuzidopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/niniberazukagikewew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946faba2735---74687644404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/31471316464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7d2d73c5b---6783957892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/jujulelijajunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/kuvasibedojenironel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/95774548954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dakf7ueo4apauutij8rdn34mqr/67406060418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emprenderem.cl/files/49949293214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11abe73155b16c37354d05259723d6dc/netikaromubiwapavajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/wovavidis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/10302526345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zold-kommando.hu/files/romavitabawigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2057562d46---peluruxuvewetedefodemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607361c47f91e---1128386504.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE3C 6744 bytes
SHA-256: 0eac1552a6a0cc8d6d43e14f5c157d052ff2bf21460314f67a2c213e0a454e63
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF23 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 8047a3fdcc12bfe9546600c6f84347c4e00e0449c52067eb3058cf2d9e507825
font_02_sfnt_off000111ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111BA 21904 bytes
SHA-256: a0d0132c389c071b59a0068f0e4443acdae883cb46f23cc560e075abd82958da
font_03_sfnt_off000141f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141F4 16392 bytes
SHA-256: e66abfbeddc1d19d92dcb25e98d0a5acfcfed5afa902c0cdbe1883ebc60d8997