Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7b4f8d2e9266622…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:50:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 74a80088e0f56584425848b207f4e85f SHA-1: a6ffa53b4b49a4f7fe6bebf7e9935c9fb4a1e926 SHA-256: a7b4f8d2e926662259fb468e1ca05a01ba934c257a8fc0ace902228e7e7661df
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 0.9974

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://ilovehikari.com/uploads/files/wuximuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/buganolulilixuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/95887240726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/wutegafajunozemanoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/66658154871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/21917946812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aeb003ecc86fa12672113460ce85fb20/8108069491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emblem4home.com/UserFiles/Member/File/miwarakotavutajokubipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60D7F642E3CD3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlead.net/images/e/file/dofaxufomojuzopakanutex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ef81893c4---41667569117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3772b78366---damilitupubapaloxapememe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/99760855501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oriental-kitchens.com/userfiles/files/mofor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b50e21c53d---sebuviwuvofefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ksb8qgtrag1niqj1sule9mpc50/wiligibusosixedikepenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murtenhof.ch/userfiles/files/mazapozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d641922fe2320c9153d79e80f5dce015/27626128919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterky.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56407016281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7d064g2u971sjad36sgv7erku/biruwefijop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27728600859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079476332c90---rorezorar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tesudaxusunarelafatak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/226700a8edc45b7b6e087184f28a881a/ludifoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610cc14930d61---26507315076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=mac+preview+combining+pdfsPDF 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_off0000e012.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE012 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF829 11104 bytes
SHA-256: eccf6c3c64021228d636c6d68e8cc8c14ceccc589e2d9728d885b59aa3e00e31
font_02_sfnt_off000111b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111B1 17780 bytes
SHA-256: dc9968345adc4d00d3cad5af724c90f8c10f96e65ebad5dea0599b7cd5055d20