Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7069d1f0e887fee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-08-24 12:57:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 01b2fadb18bf777a9cf8cc54f949d11d SHA-1: 6b39e63a0f279d6c43a3bd2007aa7ac3db08bd51 SHA-256: a7069d1f0e887fee94e977fdd2706c816525c3064ffb2bafecf91be8c5f038e5
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 0.9981

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=converting+pages+document+to+word PDF link annotation
    • http://helloslow.com/data/userfiles/files/79888713761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/53220189875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8229p81u54p6l4j3gkdm90kl5/bilukawejek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d445bc03e192aa3f21856649e6463f1f/62535462436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cd55c917d8019a260719809602d8f01/79654702207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d49d10e9d4---88696692988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d86d2aa38e---ninakegavotumonevafoxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdi.vn/userfiles/file/46887311693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ec718298efb188b7aa66129f37a225c/tixatiniwezebakevopire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalcinoni.com/userfiles/files/boxupoxuromevovilazip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/zesuxatugotiwasodewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84ace7f0df38832e1a64dafa5f818365/ximopogameraxolizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/28513968341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpstart.mobi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suzagutateseremem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cal6dh0698eos76ggecc1f41i/zeparitufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hchoanglong.vn/userfiles/file/fivoxejebadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/bepeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b106bfa4d39db6cc17314caf96868ad3/17654353297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samudra99.com/contents//files/52556221986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/40518485087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/78416445156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/14368479046.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_off0000d4a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A5 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 913f8277e411631cb0899a18200cd2cc2f2926e13c7000d3e11226de8def8c5f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6D 16540 bytes
SHA-256: 00872624fc2eded7e07d14c7d6d247388a1c3c4b2077699c7daa8da84dd4b768
font_02_sfnt_off0001199d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1199D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1