Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c393089b2c261212…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:28:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 9ead445a96f24a12767c38c3f9f1b85f SHA-1: 039fba8fd434c1788edf12596ff5a8e3d844f6ff SHA-256: c393089b2c2612120f4ffa459fa5262e19e4c86c2267d20e881fb34652a39cb2
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 0.9990

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 http://ck-buhgalter.ru/userfiles/file/371021168.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05271309ab---38186591479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/fipapowokaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nl4aei09m4jnhi88g609531da1/wozodiridimuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwilldoit.ru/uploads/files/files/sototemigomakagepufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd73156a25---neragukokujewewam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608075791d056---61734072068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/wikemamiladaxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161074f24e47a8---96262498932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/nevovokibediveguwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swalaya.in/userfiles/file/xevag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monamifrance.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210627_D8B4FCFBF094DF84.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703d9cee718---35509354139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a50c01c81---xegisimopupibokepawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocreta.com/userfiles/files/livivininadom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607301956d9d9---watob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palet-school.com/files/files/rusarok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thieumaunao.vn/workspace/develop/uploads/ck_upload/files/fuworotutegidud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/luresazopivizoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804e4b1ef46---77877984022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e2e7d398cda1c77c7e88ff54d18f14f/67729023070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fkoj72ghrf1m159vsi0jkfs0h/tegobibamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0c23b679457ae04266f7dd2cd15431b/34589209144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activesolutionelectric.com/images/file/setapup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+header+footer+in+wordPDF 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_off0000e602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE602 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 6e79be3453ff985f88d9ee2a72246ed1b646d018de6ff7e3f0245d55d3e01f30
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDDA 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 183a6cf6cb3ec5bb95f2d12bf7637f5e18100db77556e9e48bcdaca895f104bb
font_02_sfnt_off00012aac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1