Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a48488283f258c00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-06-18 03:25:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: a423c42cf94a915e66b4d9dee5485cd0 SHA-1: a187ca4e382107fcf93a19fb6c4b08192ec53ca1 SHA-256: a48488283f258c006e66afdc0f5763e90186be8e8396211b92541e6ea6ab72c3
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-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837f716a7fb---10396559113.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/vukepiroxenumonabola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/bapevalovip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/legilolinuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scamps.biz/userfiles/file/6105571340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebymtm.com/upload/files/kipolekawovuwuzomupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2rd6ip9jcr7b14lamgd4evut8/86110364468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologocarmignani.com/userfiles/files/84320465633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/grdvnl66gnmvc9eqfo6hpd7j8c/37289893713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/nalanus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4696a5d3bce32c8f9a613210c8da526d/31248848857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856f409eaa5---diwojenabijesatavowudul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29ddc80e3870d76754045810acb09931/16518784449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3f86af20ddb2c5e2a6e333e508cbb03/42262729175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/fowugikupitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f93bf551a4---2619895943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/5981617241.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/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=compress+pdf+online+high+qualityPDF 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
    • 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_off0000e729.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE729 6512 bytes
SHA-256: 7975d9241aff79ec5656bc5177d8784456c2432915404b8bd9b6b37fddce7160
font_01_sfnt_off0000f772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF772 5588 bytes
SHA-256: b13253200fd6cf034e39fc355b861775f631dbae651a589dfd8a01f98a1b0d48
font_02_sfnt_off00010a40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A40 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 8ef5ae23396e0ce2caa721ceb42d216eaa6606ee7ab488b888a9d0b4b92688d7
font_03_sfnt_off00012e46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E46 16148 bytes
SHA-256: dbe1f6873dfbc63a557840fa26764ed1e24daf10180a919a5f50e881975b6f06