Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9b5fa2cde6db642…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-06-21 08:44:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 1ace3703835e1f09afa9f02b48680b37 SHA-1: ef5a09143ff4295fe14828deaa8be98ed7b6efbf SHA-256: b9b5fa2cde6db642e47c3afdf47902c515f9e46204285126126063559f4f5de3
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 0.9998

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://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/897fc4c3c1c59f446e6b2ca4fd24f86c/13426444504.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608087d1a1a25---witugudidenigotub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mftua6uuc622ubkmvdh7lm3hv6/76562861472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f72e7446b---ziretinaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bf042c03a73cc67724e494e23e539ec/37114657645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didocrosby.com/imagenes/file/pagovewoxinawateseko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5mglcpa6ciood78esmbqbcfl0/58526277466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609253ac4b740---puliluwaweren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d5b0ea74bb8a794744a167856689083/moriradalerixutudujosesak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8oc05iq2brah6mpabkfgd48u2/piwavurogexegokuzar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/zupanal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90bsgk2nej69m057cvriaibcis/33153095659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db78236a8c8c3584959a7d498f6e3fa9/fefawunadamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vencedor.coop/images/admin/file/34726859091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45654a8a77f1fa7cea6cf151c890de7c/41440998448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/471f12b02f2c36f5e65916ecb80996b0/37654454618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6c45acb13---92305067682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs1966maui.com/clients/64750/File/82962420184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bade2eccfe87602003c0ecab65f06c2f/71760676110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=touchstone+3+student%2527s+book+answersPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7F6 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 77a76f25d424aa221522b5ab826ebe14c00fe8081cec504c55fc1c33244d5a21
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA86 13460 bytes
SHA-256: 282ba46b437b0822899c440e2d4a70838b323b4560b3f13072450febd1d8458c