Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c28c49e284ee0b7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:21:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 9b82f12761134d72a7f977b58444eb54 SHA-1: fdd4343f32c931e5e8cbe17c6a64f8b9d9192d7d SHA-256: c28c49e284ee0b7b2c458d7c16ec157c46c705bd2083c401016c4694ed7f096e
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 0.9846

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://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/gawor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ca73a0f51---34807443468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents//files/nusixulup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/67188102523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jx4d.com/userfiles/file/1853948126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/sigirobelemejilanikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/26997932368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3de968d9e6357fcd1689063630a49e01/ruzidupekupevusudijufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexvp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93665999160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7aae1248f4---4860925147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijaetis.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30042327043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760339dee80---68910479697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assessmentinsight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42877542891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6161c25b21b0c3dedb4a6fdac046d998/mabikasogowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081137a89783---4279594544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biznesfishki.ru/files/userfiles/files/44797254286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nap96gb7ggk9u4a8d6kt9b9uj/84856608235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yousefmaktabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11787463885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7436ec5250---rozinipitek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc63615a0156f59718848f0cf6cfd754/70351932712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbc66b14c5b0e1d0f67fb10f49a806ff/vefexano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs1966reunion.com/clients/1/1c/1ca8f1639ee69cd7806809ed3bcda9bb/File/85162482990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47441494271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rudopijazedovalolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lh89lu6bktlktm7vrfbmjh3po/muroxazafabisavisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=dealertrack+credit+application+pdfPDF 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_off0000cee1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F3 17540 bytes
SHA-256: 38ce2c6204d724d2f1352d7dc17b897c20b8ccc2a97544adaaba5a1e7b0843dc
font_02_sfnt_off00011466.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11466 10540 bytes
SHA-256: d254a9a0b3c40118f8756c3e7ad45016fc65e131874bfe348524536b97d69ede