Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a953643f36742d2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 16:07:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: f8df2da996396a645a8bc1e8e31b163e SHA-1: 777ee38998643ba0b18140019a0c285e842f42d3 SHA-256: a953643f36742d2ac98419af1158ac482fb844312ebec37c31c6fe4055d8ef79
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. 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 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/9787286884.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://technoprofile.ru/userfiles/file/pagukima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4b74bafd28b1162aa58788f5d5fa2f4/kegiralubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1630817212_960575cff9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onelove.cz/file/64946901495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132fac08e615---vogulezidazamilugov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tivatijapan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/moxijumiruzimipilopeboxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/xeloribedazimejimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352a6a28bfd---wovikijotijapizuxawekazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armour-technoz-ca.otzol.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78649090398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://underbutter.cz/download/foto/86202194381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oalysa.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50819513958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zakuskymoser.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8792749105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130f61d9952c---7842507912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332925117f3---21789057193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infoegrafica.com/userfiles/files/1763324326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuason.vn/upload/files/viras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.poliklinika-hb.cz/userfiles/file/18703045854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150005.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210908153312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimustelecoms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fetaminom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-jia.com/uploads/files/202109051536415323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46fe04a07f123c949f6073cb210f0d94/41259042634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161349d41df42a---vabapadijinimunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87628264241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=idm+crack+versionPDF 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_off0000e373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE373 17776 bytes
SHA-256: 30fd5147e54c987a346295f077ce2ede187777b57035f2563ddecfa64069e92f
font_01_sfnt_off0001118d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1118D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129A4 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 50992232ea746ee3130a1e9425ba3d120d36ed5b69df0f5f31a08416c8b4e97b