Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a705f273e9d740e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-06-20 07:51:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 8b72674455947c1827210c1d3d453034 SHA-1: 9fe6b2cf958ba6520238b51248d5f333dbcfbde1 SHA-256: a705f273e9d740e1d46029123974dc383e020154e0a0a0ca6f4e7ca3e6b633b0
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 0.9998

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://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/86478748785.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c06ff31f5c7---40683122109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunjewelsonline.com/userfiles/file/lanuvudepunufulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad3570e6a46---sixebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe0e3006f6---wirizosemigaluxavosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42229559dadda242c12a64abdf220a78/dogazunivub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/18139861091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didopack.com/files/faxevuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51939ebeac01d4036d1138d0c06d15f4/mimizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/500020303fe1dea04ab352dbdde4f802/zoluginitaruri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/xakovoziguduzafoboxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753bf8f35b7---motaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/164c840ed1aeb13b23f4757ba9f8eb2c/gubuxuwipokudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/fabapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc90a97e268---97642975489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s94np7f2p9sg5pr54si32r0krf/22441551287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/dukotutujexamozuwaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/fedosedinafonurux.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=velociraptor+colouring+pagesPDF 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://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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7DF 5064 bytes
SHA-256: 65b53e1a7a0b8074c309696a4c1e0d5b5d067720da558cc18b26c6c0455b277e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e931.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE931 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 7185a9b3b7b4d281acd85c5a8c1641d8388369a7d056d2f26ce4adb2c13d8408
font_02_sfnt_off00010dfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DFD 17464 bytes
SHA-256: 7559c431529985a1676020443263b7ea679aeda525cc64256c84dcedf7f4fe6e