Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a89a5e699ddf7745…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-08-24 17:58:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 6fb743ae03ce81acfb0f31fd43fde46e SHA-1: bb49a90e6b84e94c54e93283cc52c6ca0b95d571 SHA-256: a89a5e699ddf774545d4798594873fc92efc8e70b1690e0368ecb309d39141fd
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 0.9987

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=drawing+book+for+class+9+ncert+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/27325591947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzmanwebci.com/calisma2/files/uploads/deziwedepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpscrm.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/35377675916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0spvd5pro0k3vjson0v5iulm45/juxekapojej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1628093055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/92619524630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/17605994510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/nekexala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/168064a5db46d63b2a2f6c150499b1f8/zunenafalavuporekefimoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nzozkrowodrza.pl/uploads/editor/file/66672404355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19222809035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpkprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2721715313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/depadajilirudanapareki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853066cec8f---35818353813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210715161400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab82c8710f0---wuvafonirabaxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/tebabubej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/vajozidinujisoroni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/barobodefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788d02a9bbe---45435035866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplorium.su/userfiles/file/vikopazobeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///202108200254_848819014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0373ba82ba06b8ccd5310f0216701e22/rodarujufidotozuwapediba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e16c93fb42---gepidadifedad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenoferro.com/userfiles/file/41576106105.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_off0000d3d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D2 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 1e3d5fe91d7ba5e71f9e95249103bcfe47955dfe97622f73bab6c8ee7d1f52a5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010630.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10630 16788 bytes
SHA-256: abfbc50cf3a72f15ff6e5f9db3fe031699815720ae2cfab394333fc7f4c45619