Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4fec3c360010537…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.6 KB Created: 2021-06-13 12:52:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 249b32e96ea42ba86d039751fb5a6765 SHA-1: 1e4382bcd2c616860bb91473b1dd7b6da4eeb677 SHA-256: b4fec3c360010537b83489aaf2168a3169ceffd5c8df4d1ec73ca62a2a858be1
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-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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=marathi+barakhadi+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e6afac3bb---posifufotovopisejufuxewew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077067c3e369---livubeboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16229132083744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e598912569412b2a0ac53469195ddb24/zatijunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o962oh4ebs1nbqukeeeec1fhl7/65858636316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cae16e18ea---xudifafefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee36dc26a7---49494448420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/67130464109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/foposatipezetujesane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65e1208977d3728f9f0fbd1963e9d2c9/zoliguxitigazisutikusezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e923e3c33---kivobudubalalerobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fccddb5359---dubafirebazexaxiwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/64971532101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/reburimutiduvififejerulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vflg8bfau0d9v6nlsplv8db76c/87576752139.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.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001269e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1269E 5128 bytes
SHA-256: 69475482d85e69af89487dcb3afecf85842a060fd8dac1aa2d5c00a2fe70c572
font_01_sfnt_off00013813.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13813 15976 bytes
SHA-256: f41139aac883405e22ae1b7e06ee755495707e1fd336d4df91d35e0482175fd9
font_02_sfnt_off00016612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16612 13792 bytes
SHA-256: 15b4c8a6da57cbc936f5e2764c01fa5120fcc2ee73d7065fd9b223c720afd9aa
font_03_sfnt_off00018cee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18CEE 6296 bytes
SHA-256: dd07a8b2f6c2afeb969936fb3eede91fb7179db26e763d1714558e95e0c7c423