Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad9b7d52a9654625…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-29 15:21:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 57b9871c62d5c163e7464290e72bb5d7 SHA-1: acaef6800726a4d53fa4f32d235ddfad30009133 SHA-256: ad9b7d52a965462569a6c2a4c4f8b5f694ff6cf589b5d2a8d9a7cd1c983f0e08
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 0.9952

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://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/seic66dh65ogmlgv9pvpb8nphj/48166571310.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/68087259676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0uv32c801pgut57id0po6gl7vb/64116178387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://douzonebnf.com/upload/file///73942285794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnri323l57i5ai23l7c64g30r5/46045965619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/xitazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/tumonikenilivewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/puxadatilotasazat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/mikekamalaronipaxitewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ba952411c---2573518770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleangroupbd.com/ck/upload/files/sikabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhspartan79.com/clients/9/97/97d0d0788ec4d6723ba7be3cd58769e3/File/dogobepogena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-14/20210514050607900985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c27afd11fa2---13868000780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d56261c6ead---68345301763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/tibagaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.com/d/files/75031340893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/31421974811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/79955443957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80d6c6622e---12648001387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/fapelukogewefagonus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/ridixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mini+militia+old+version+mod+apk+download+unlimited+health+and+ammoPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/667283c552a2eaf48832e0d768782342/91092473453.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_off0000eee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE4 16964 bytes
SHA-256: 0e0230c73e08e6ad403a3e721a16c559e5c93a603a5e7eaee51a1d589af4ea81
font_01_sfnt_off00011b34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B34 10996 bytes
SHA-256: edc5a60c71bae39d25bdd9fa4c87f45b4467ece674f1f3fceab142d3cdd50623
font_02_sfnt_off00013494.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13494 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1