Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9a6d52b0fd7687f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-16 12:51:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 55885616e8fbc01ec23b20a02626ab2a SHA-1: 004591e193c4d800b399e144feb9c161e183009a SHA-256: a9a6d52b0fd7687f3c47ce32a208f9d2aece91d93504625616d548817629109d
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 0.9996

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=class+7+tamil+text+book PDF link annotation
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac94775adfb---48406756187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thedestinbeachhouses.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb5a7f055dcd328c15476b2a38594793/31874430570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakesandcupcakes.net/userfiles/files/tifujumukoxonuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uo7d5t6tg0i3qe41l1pi0u419b/gifawulifuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/60497494738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210506023958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startservis.sk/novy/ckfinder/userfiles/files/radufexutof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/tivubasoliminip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d8f76d888---vesuviruraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c17c0ddb40f9e5b23806d8495e47208/89357645553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07c64c77cbc4050f9d562a3b4ab52082/gupazojolabavagibebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32c8d6a8ba---36226899578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/7715719582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49avwqct32ewe967crscpsaz7d.com/ckupload/files/18780233373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9338juqetsl0mo74360f5u1s5/57552662181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoilersmensgolfclub.com/clients/865201/File/50330377137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sukhabalka.com/files/file/8337138341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/zudovinimesuvikuxagawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/23714176207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED7D 4792 bytes
SHA-256: b7e9d8dcec66af5a172a97f3cd6906aff9b82949fdee0fcb170c84559ef36616
font_01_sfnt_off0000fddb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDDB 11708 bytes
SHA-256: f2741f41ffa4fd1c2a58c2b486d5970268c1aeea5a2a38153204b70f076a9027
font_02_sfnt_off00011b34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B34 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 17ec827c4d509007bc6c96612a69e940c86b4a28742cf61cae3d13508ec30763
font_03_sfnt_off00013f7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F7B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f