Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca7deb3286cd46ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-07-24 02:44:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 25827b217d27052e2cd9cf89e1bc9237 SHA-1: 659b2854005de04a59a94330a081d816892fac85 SHA-256: ca7deb3286cd46ceb19a7a252f5bfe8ee4e42cbc36017f3d8989782e2154aa65
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 0.9964

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://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777131bd826---moxafuzutavozup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/37568564548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiangsutravel.kr/userfiles/files/20210611_052220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d27ef9fea369503c3f56090c7ba559e/rakijizopetiwejutajuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-9/20210609194703700053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/liwubor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/268d88a41926c6be097471540419e538/26838431341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoj0agf7cq.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/97523200201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/soboxenen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8d84de2a864658678c0b8a11213673b/69845850549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/12909167755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/nufadozezelejonorujetirif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3suntech.com/UploadFile/file/20210623041531581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4f6e7d5eb6---53972867588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rdmhfj3itkc0vlj0jseneprpu7/xojiwoxojoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddb681ee7b0---53999185547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/retopadaweregabepibodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaosms.org/media/ftp/file/kebasixutusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonebreaker.at/25022885985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v4nrjet55g60hrj0at34drs45l/musowenife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrbrentacars.com/files/others/bebavolepigunezixaripen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210521155216193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=aprender+portugues+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000caca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCACA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E1 10748 bytes
SHA-256: b9d02c728b828f1ef2915f3abf62bcbe9a9c03596d4d2b320fa323d3e3de452f
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB9C 19076 bytes
SHA-256: 42ad5207075c40e111471ecdd7a8e7e7ac5825e1df4b5f536e3431baeb63c9a6