Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4e99a822aafea26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-08-26 01:46:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 21b9c0dd5374707045a8b625d8b5543f SHA-1: e130a37a14832cfc914d5a52044577231bb0ec2f SHA-256: d4e99a822aafea269cbabe6c5dc31c95bd03ee35288440b173401bc1e4115488
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 0.9990

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+light+brown+paint PDF link annotation
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/valiwosufugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c22e07f10766b261644fc05a78312561/50329922596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b80bd1669456421049049fd17ddd28e/71287018111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/56338060247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saiprogetti.net/userfiles/files/liriju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sin-hua.org/userfiles/82873105729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd70656641---sabupajeketipunapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/96055723406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investir-petroleo.pt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bapeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansing.nl/userfiles/file/26614317200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/32222469223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/57659439103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17312bd5c1---wodudikube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flixgolf.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jufoxizokoxesizivepami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c5a5c6b3a40bcf11e18bf609a0c510e/kavitamorat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creaorganization.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/63913860340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b72ffdad44e---nitejavez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop//contents/mewubosukavupovosebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076af1526f8e---53117987813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c952606f5f---lujuxatuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f87b74c82---68919334681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/kikised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a097e21b4c2---36279489839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shs1977reunion.com/clients/41590/File/77088790660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210807171901.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_off0000e6f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF07 17412 bytes
SHA-256: 423f587f3fc616a4cc725052c67ac2dabdd61276f7d68968d8cc6a1378e4ea4b
font_02_sfnt_off00012c9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C9F 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 4cda07f8cda9b0fcdc9bb4d833222076e0910d35d770fb2d1cbf4e734c85d188