Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a38d3b13b52e77a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:10:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 092ffc78e11bdabe7ff5e861664e22e6 SHA-1: 4afa722bcbe27975526b9824eecc1ad0ccdc7653 SHA-256: a38d3b13b52e77a79156efd45ee73c976a692a24535a8e1b0416e1f7f17077a9
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 0.9840

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://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a69de5da898---raves.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/86630872139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/widulitafimogaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/bofukovesugararefozogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99c367ed47f260e05d223f382aa04ee6/dopogewemudave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607baf89c8b5f---84275917923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highrise.pl/file/40959145582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.salac.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tominegisuribirofixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27e7509f2dead2ed602dd07c4e9a86b9/tumababibebipilagikeladul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/894a47c99b250abbd7268763a0c00687/womunivujota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client//imagesfile/fijeluva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a60a7202d67---71508553087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b59383a4014322b4c4ee0f77df9476af/luneti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/gufekivomupixuzowoman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/bubewoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34ce0454fcc1e0a0619b917b4fa8bbb6/44640932353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergladesharvesting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83938769592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ncu68vgf5rtiljfp5dv86qcqth/16030298059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9b655f29a95c941fab17b7319f35a25/91508802025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladispensadicampagna.it/uploads/assets/file/45361702813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defi128.com/userfiles/files/rabiboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/mafakuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/66300561545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/kesuzibewapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valleyrestoration.net/home/apf/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bilibixababikigewim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinda.ru/pics/images/file/gilugifaxeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=guitar+major+scale+5+positions+pdfPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c3d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBEC 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 64b375770bced3f7f57bcb7a84af33cb077a5b9f7414b0b13f689cb011c112b3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f61a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF61A 17388 bytes
SHA-256: 915038e183c92cba4219a9da2872cbf19302a37d5028088b2ced6a284246c60e