Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a214b33b1d835bb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 00:01:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: d267646f3dfd636802ea040955556189 SHA-1: 8e6e3f6ad32f0377350578fbba8772694d5c57e1 SHA-256: a214b33b1d835bb48220ff2e24c221db6ee967b2aa03dd5728cf9aaa974d64dc
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 0.9846

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dr+fone+android+lock+screen+removal+reviews PDF link annotation
    • http://hotel-ambassador-nice.com/upload/files/10516349916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranfeng.com/userfiles/file/2021-9///2021971645218175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317e83458b8---9565025311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tidomusica.com/uploads/files/202109012106529087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/rirewitetanoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theknowledgeonline.com/files/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jirebunimipijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyisz.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/ruwodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/62797198364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/51068613198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oppedisanorobertosrl.com/userfiles/files/55577295187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://openendrep.com/userfiles/files/sugosuxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e54b4463d3fb37e98bea62273bbd448f/muxisotejeguritakerimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaketiga.com/contents/files/96493043602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec49e2896a---kigarepoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/tewixowenefozepanuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex.tj/img/file/4770975755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f89bb3cfe5---4937064119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613165a836416---megasigakufuzaxanunaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detikakdeti.ru/img/file/buwudiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakdekkersindex.nl/images/uploads/ginedebevesosotebiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b263870ec9---59389157306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumland.sk/upl/bezuwuwisena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawaiianhunareiki.it/file/66583778412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/kagidodazara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolt-go77.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/41356324872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/20672006741.pdfIn 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://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_off0000dc7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC7A 10784 bytes
SHA-256: ff59d7cd136b7b06dbbd03f8751df9c0e9c0b0d8abe6b271f7c33876320c3985
font_01_sfnt_off0000f549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF549 17784 bytes
SHA-256: b2542edfaca37793bf83104e18d82a988328874ce93b92a72685810bb76630bf
font_02_sfnt_off00012337.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12337 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1