Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c57691eb12fd6b10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-07-18 17:45:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: d7155e8c78ee94030dc4fa13107f1f88 SHA-1: 2bb56404ed68d4113bcb56fe5cfa629f99f5816c SHA-256: c57691eb12fd6b104216aaaf9cafca47d7e245757ab3bceda50fd42c52847f8b
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 0.9966

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://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ecdd82d87---68078022345.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://se-ty.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/20075271174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/24995231294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/88112386880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c016b928---11066387801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/59993879781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/vekapixekupumisikenozuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa78e45f925---73656799973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6a8d3aff3---febuwumexatewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-cluny.cz/UserFiles/file/leburivorebomifuvamide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/203745f47bde5b6c9f8bd58054d76feb/53717023822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/70717739665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/83746047623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f041cd46c4---murugiraratozito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cphs1970.net/clients/877309/File/78018821806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/mevewijikuremet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/83488401102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgc52n7fsodse252uhhid2e0b0/jepoveparudedebalebuwaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608777cee50d6---nilisiwusok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/kefefeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/rufur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=purpose+of+mitotic+cell+divisionPDF 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_off0000ffeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFEB 10788 bytes
SHA-256: e326b36d945739c2377cb584189b19af861841635d9da789cc6b212d96b08716
font_01_sfnt_off000118c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C8 17856 bytes
SHA-256: 56552dc9b4aa57f826ef507f8f16bfbd7a5282c99745ee4438366783417a0f10
font_02_sfnt_off00014743.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14743 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1