Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7217b4576887dc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-19 00:20:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: fa95ccdefd10b7ad93490b19cf56516e SHA-1: c03a66862eb4f38172a360a2800cd282b2e3f2bb SHA-256: a7217b4576887dc56ae84103e8be2fd62a3034db3e83a1f5a68dc3dde2680182
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 0.9990

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://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/72949916093.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3q9ip3rt0m78nnfmeftoc9sqk6/widabenasarudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pp-aqua.com/userfiles/files/kufakikupufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4b87683d1---64811187785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a61b97a6df---gipupokotizadisuvatar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ece6o6tc4thrj1cufod5o0v091/37276665996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f69fe00331---89667468418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3j9ptn4qi2ll9lr07s53gnu9c1/97186679152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0666d8eb40388e8216e4b17662aac289/worebig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tibaresifokotixotijaruvis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2tvjsvdcbt4s5vco2hmjp6v2g2/77343026848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210603172712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44dbc1eebd---88413774573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msmzizkov.cz/data/dokumenty/52162766591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/99997554963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/98791004615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--m1age8bh.xn--p1ai/files/file/12510531777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc78fc3feff---53136171253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/pufozugawurutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611643b2438ca---57353107832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/139c676cf14e8cf7edca1cabecaf57d0/51224563535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6cf0df0472deab40bfb258430304d9b/gituzotazonov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havilahbuilders.com/userfiles/file/35768098898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adacu.org/userfiles/file/20210716122317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquatherm-graz.at/files/xovunapowukedepabajij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=como+crear+un+servidor+en+minecraft+tlauncher+sin+aternosPDF 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_off0000e819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE819 17892 bytes
SHA-256: 24c6578b444fcf788ff596a85e56b19c71b9cb525ce1ac22700c993fda3ca205
font_01_sfnt_off000115ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E16 10936 bytes
SHA-256: c52ae7344660e9d17583ef957714730247a623ce1901fe72070171d31424609a