Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a454b678e8d6f57a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 3dbeff6157eef8fd761d127fc6390a93 SHA-1: ec6f6cf24f541cb8528eb58aa7250a6829274b85 SHA-256: a454b678e8d6f57a68386e53ef79f7789ec35a7c375120c28644a916075dc03b
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

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 0.9976

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/labej.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de93976574890f6fe190191585e32cc0/11467949983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakra.sk/storage/file/57480556241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a112e1abe7fe1376f014df7daf8035ad/kiper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/82991827538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b22aef0a731591aca59cc24b6d275ff2/xemelidiwubakenawaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartenvue.net/appart/upload/images/kodoxizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteurluc.com/userfiles/file/37662892305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liho.cz/UserFiles/File/93063114636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/51506190004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restavratorstvo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27119580664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gucaoyun.com/uploads/file/30113218698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutskytools.com/d/files/potokikebagofitudavejikis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1554fe8559---nopubolabekakigimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fcbdee8a0f---31418647819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d06bba8040c---36201466203.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://xn--80adpfaaeictf0c6c7i.xn--p1ai/public/file/86436344476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e48dd6a1ac---kepubuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me/files/metazojeluvowavidapuworab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents//files/vuvaxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/nizupeporewonufidurejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c42a5f4c1---nobiwukotataluxexire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/denika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=sears+coldspot+chest+freezer+manualPDF 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_off0000f011.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF011 18888 bytes
SHA-256: b41e6ca6c96b8643a8b83142adb6ab992bbded2920f8cb0d7a9801c88a5cdc37
font_01_sfnt_off00012159.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12159 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013970.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13970 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 6889463c39c27f2273c4028ac52065d195560e628db75440f2a66656a1af1453