Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2e2943ff59ffda4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-08-08 08:48:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 19adb48d933470abb502fb497fa2d06c SHA-1: 56e887d30d813d88a1d71182a81195f9fd6ca343 SHA-256: d2e2943ff59ffda456e0324a0aeac390bb8543601a413c1710d433dbf6c76431
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 0.9963

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bsc+1st+year+maths+notes+solved+exercises+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/jesonadadulere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/26747225710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c56f486b412---26073643058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa03847421---lazabeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22a183257fb7194563d146e339ce5bc6/raranozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/94598495751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanchariglobal.com/userfiles/file/nexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/86919132548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/61464353395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tajozizulutoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03379f52b9ed198f3d51ea4c9a5741ae/40234400377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5eaa06d9ef---zofopovobubasufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/15553426258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/8326312238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a64e73e6055bd3e3d5c8e119c2233f71/kutaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/94427727429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/83635564979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hgeeakr1emdl14amnfb88r0ur2/19644242474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3e17qe9o77fci42kan6ssbov0/witepomid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/003d362a3844145413487fca95a16c5c/33535176269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/23573017395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210801_7579484842093114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c04e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC04E 11356 bytes
SHA-256: cd8bb27fe4507f36918ea0765c6be3eba1a4f9362b86417775afaab06c53e74b
font_01_sfnt_off0000db0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB0C 17012 bytes
SHA-256: d405eef7fe3781c2dc522dac2e17f26cb62a214f2aab34e52e32ea8b60927399
font_02_sfnt_off000107ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1