Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a747835b0310dbd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-08-07 17:58:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 4fbf893979eb541937043005d0193a06 SHA-1: 4d76cde3d3dc77aeb6dab317b71b3cadc89bef85 SHA-256: a747835b0310dbd574ed12c8ae0b36a8e65df6dd301a12679837af9dd9a70a39
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 0.9985

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://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802fbd965d1---3719281010.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://huanghecables.com/d/files/vevufage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hibertek.com/image/files/20210607_203003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609464681067a---40387042161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/35914847981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/93103770290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freetourscadiz.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/57334466234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/1081549130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608051eba7d52---90285253661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/65524171404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758d170dd06---21964068977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/sajixupurepizugetipowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/noxatojaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edilgroupdigiovanni.it/userfiles/files/katomexixikifoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e881d64dbe2---5797871511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/262883570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210618230042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4039ab5b17---44127963003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poongdung.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210807_7BE10B6AAB84F3AB.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diennuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/fafodebutajazebowuxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d455b0b4d842d2892df740d98b92d3ee/dununaloveseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdwtechnology.com/fckeditor/file/45619010927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86c1858903a0a5631c64ba39822fe24b/soruzefileroso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=workshop+attendance+sheet+templatePDF 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_off0001036c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1036C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B7E 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 76bbf904da0fbcf460fbc727e17c3b5b9b2a6edeaad38d0fdfdfb3de0bb94eff
font_02_sfnt_off000148df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148DF 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 11c1e622eb459a42b16f9f9c8460b7398b4918ca916c7ead00432a4183a6a9b3