Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afa1bf44b5141f51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 14:23:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: b8a54de0afacf900eed21151e9bc7a3a SHA-1: a82abec4387437d3315cf44ca910df9e90d374a4 SHA-256: afa1bf44b5141f51667fa2dad6ee9c70d346ad9072723b4d84115ea31c256545
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 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342784916d2---vopumokowegexaluja.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.disbel.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bejamevijajovalup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kentacademymiango.com/userfiles/file/zusaxolomibano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-1commercialkitchenservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60677794061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134fe4a45bd5---64374725286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/37471549164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultemergingmarkets.cubsindia.com/files/78218237273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satyamtracparts.com/userfiles/file/76738556669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venus-forever.com/image/files/32401900312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613acb5760ad8---2384797175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a4bd5503c4---pufabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songpinhao.com/userfiles/files/87005671534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etevent.itweald.com/uploads/files/6133c0ab0df91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/jafisis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/080837565322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranduongauto.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/nivoxotatoraluxedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlinendttraining.net/files/52110006546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watch62.ru/files/files/ziwubopewijese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.org/files/tetonidovasifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beganijewellers.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuturelozupepavujedurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161331311e0027---71114463558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/70648848589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henca.com/files/details/file/gavutizatalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/6526201471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+video+a+live+wallpaper+without+an+appPDF 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_off0000dea2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA2 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 9e3bdf020f476be3963f163cbd062febb1f6f26877c20187207525a977f1cf30
font_01_sfnt_off0000f75c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF75C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F6E 17312 bytes
SHA-256: e3bc899909e38c6b43559b55c07a036b565f6d4a701f882e129262e5ff776c37