Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2e6aaa3671e0309…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 15:04:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 020d70fcbd86327ea595dfee6fd33a7c SHA-1: fc74a629752c8f04787cefba45d2af5e8022d5c7 SHA-256: b2e6aaa3671e0309d5d199a2175f2e8c1dece2020714621f07f0fe3be71cb0d9
172 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. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, presents a deceptive download button and contains embedded JavaScript. 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-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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/3361783411.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f91fb0ca4020c4ed5a26326f9480264/95929787861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/kiwovizisidilafoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geniodelweb.com/file/jofiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/33981380827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sndao42ko6lg5jp2ggdpq3bu55/35190803425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/96049059224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/ginubuwumurofalabotewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b2745d802---woviwakalorizet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaimano.it/file/kazalanisexorubasular.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ad415747c---taxesitozig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/disitomipudawurob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff796205b3f---sogizojof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19103bea30d8d332b2a3db05ddd64b4d/tiluxujidodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.de/eros/userfiles/file/14501796823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gma.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bevavozafupusobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71739751789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-6/file/mubigexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/90499915759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/pesuxagejuwavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mezaxevisatata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arserwood.com/js/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php/upfiles/file/210625181630808732zj0git.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa5c0c941f816ec2ba0e0cd2d8d614e9/47029718316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/44369871275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ssc+chsl+2018+syllabus+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000df27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF27 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 6cfeb9c55c9fa65f8802dbbe0ea59e08f0ce6b2180c0be02654fe659492cb04c
font_01_sfnt_off00010cbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CBB 11544 bytes
SHA-256: eb8432a17f8dbca5d497cf815537fc28489e4331055b912565377f218a6729eb
font_02_sfnt_off000127fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1