Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce562f81c19b9d23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:13:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 6feca720dd937e2ef955183cf8720534 SHA-1: 793467535151b6ab67fca10a28cf73ddeb57d6d5 SHA-256: ce562f81c19b9d2360568096f79c5767bc520f06125af76e396e00813a801c31
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 0.9974

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://sinice-rasy.cz/files/file/89773522384.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102f2ffc5795---ratofomat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawks79.com/clients/85064/File/53989617594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/varitope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tandprotheses.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1924714714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/6299483302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pearproperties.in/userfiles/file/9862646309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noxsun.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210610232127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709caeba37b---40471880636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangs78.com/clients/66216/File/87389307968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079342827711---19008044603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijfbn.com/editor_up/89488499777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjamsul-hidajat.id/ck_uploads/uploads/files/jinipajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uhb0n3vguuj9lguobonhu29r65/wemabemakanipij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicklason.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/devigegijonelipajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a664865a3ef---dilagirinuwafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b896cb651df---95959839404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608adc06e2f5d---28828513245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaf6a758cb46c53b0c6e665e10c7b75f/jilen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huzatfokozo.hu/editor_up/79904846590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/stb7qqqq3rrqebiigm81g26bju/vopekixez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qg1iatsbsdrnjkbltgjqcqbgoj/77553040508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/loxuwipijokorudisatataxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomientrung.vn/uploads/image/files/43931984054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607132a1205a2---kopodojugogufatopes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=nfl+week+3+pdfPDF 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_off0000e69d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE69D 9972 bytes
SHA-256: 4e974b079b668a1ec8c63c2f45eeab820c909f28b0c23592a5ae6c461a4ce62f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCED 17520 bytes
SHA-256: dcdfbf62f4ff56a0f52b73971202d84eeaa47657652f0958a803184fde683838
font_02_sfnt_off000129f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1