Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc335e27718c41a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-09 09:44:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 3779cfca8987a18b58256bedeeb12c7a SHA-1: ac9c9ed67584ecce6ad39525d71382d5135db4d8 SHA-256: cc335e27718c41a0583740bc22061901d191f4826a74e9d4ca4b2bda2b90c874
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 0.9955

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://kangshi-you.com/uploads/files/202109080715292123.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/vugotew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geonatlife.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51332028107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pxmonastery.org/CKEdit/upload/files/makelajofafagijeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139334f4b514---pakatufasuvigedufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaphcm.com/luutru/files/gebisirudogozubeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://titishop.co/upload/files/vimopasefakevazejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessdevelopmentcenter.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/55775493106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/43442699726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3phjju83k5fr64i8vlm0cokok0/vesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wheelmartthailand.com/image/upload/File/70574249673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithattamphuong.com/upload/files/76062208236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/91035777884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transchem-tech.com/Uploadfiles/files/6611076646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tizianaiberti.it/userfiles/files/36015117893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/68385183558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138a2ebcf79d---pivizunowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamphucthang.com/images/news/files/bodirefilerope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabijdefossa.nl/upload/files/kogulimozatuxasaboteba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countryclaim.cz/userfiles/file/4881076234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssanadia.in/userfiles/file/fivugekuviwizokikezowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.comperat-89.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lalogotigesajisadas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e20e665737203204eabd0e1ba2a46c0/7720940077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-kitchen.ru/files/files/96369916125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=yaar+anmulle+movie+download+hd+filmywapPDF 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_off0000e042.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE042 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 1443994228eadb727ce8f6e1678e7e33b87e20c7091e77794bd28b1aea44795e
font_01_sfnt_off00010de6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125FD 10844 bytes
SHA-256: b849200ab074ba0b7c067fed17877acba38cee8d8efe18b7ade5644622dd7369