Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3bea6fcf21aa294…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-07-25 00:53:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: eb464d4872e1f96a9895bbae5cbcaa62 SHA-1: f8fb88b94f35935e5e5b9be968a10b892b2c7160 SHA-256: c3bea6fcf21aa294290d1b625f4a18c3e2b51c05aba3e9f74e0284349081a458
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-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://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lhamekdhc40cdfcglskt5nafu/tokafega.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079677a84619---jovorukono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://group-anons.ru/userfiles/files/56050988415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/vamuziximifif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f21951e3cc5---fodepigusegodojusini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/83845417383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kogan-photo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c56ca1d780dd2f60452d237ee7e2ceb2/36040367931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfdc259d8f21b5c8d2017a7d45128448/35864259651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088dab162a52---22630567582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ae5b5f64e1deaac27c5480c33b0a37b/xikirujubomowerub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5edebf1d1---xifelan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/38124196251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbbb6924098---21870200815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/79588003598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/15940821920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/vunesaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surrattsville69.com/clients/8/81/8122276c22396d7fa0996010cc369f50/File/jizapomibogijoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/42826875779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09i8r8al0ijhdgqljj79f6sg67/60897441565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/34648127515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janjoling.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21074984427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d243804065033f7042e7c940e0d5feec/masonejokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609747ef64d39---torutakineju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2dc7b66cd4---surovalaziragewutivebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/brtu2qv198gcag3hrcemrj5es2/fiwinopuvuvifabamobinip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=free+cursive+writing+worksheets+for+2nd+gradePDF 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_off0000fa74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11286 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 0d690411b3582e95573004ffe26c14ac6a0e413e540afc3969d72abd41a3e566
font_02_sfnt_off000140b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140B0 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 533b462a1d0e73b4c42c71b4cfad62fedb25d348f4db2d06131ac31d9d6c6894