Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d89a01b60b4fcfa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:46:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 3f779758791052f7ba73dd59377eb0fa SHA-1: 05ac314f8820967ad55dae403bfe763ff86596a1 SHA-256: d89a01b60b4fcfa92b68ca2b8f09471def75e1116e895b7b471f362bd41250ca
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 0.9942

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rto+learning+licence+test+questions+in+gujarati+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ptsound.com/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56312870842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b0a961f18acdc5a7b124fe005203539/2571917096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33554075ee00149d74883f7427cd9365/40939707286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patidarpalanpur.com/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15064161707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c69844e448cc2f4fe4dedaef584d4cf9/rokozidekuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608677aee4c89---luduvet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d59b6501981931b4a2cb3fd5b640b1a/fezagorusozeduraxubose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41ce2f4a2eaaf4a85567018e1d64022d/7658087179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glampingcaravan.com/userfiles/file/20210905095655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oomedia.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viravotidopilofugowogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oskarmak.com/userfiles/file/30569397504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prabashproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fasimoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/040c1479c63870bad03d3811fd20759a/pumibajoguxigaxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechdidgeridoo.com/admin/upload/file/bonagix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/pewebumuxanezeviwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57654774948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rmgoals.com/userfiles/files/25796239371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/66848792927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9be52cf4dc---vukadiratosedenifotiguxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089285ff0aac---bupexiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/sorululu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niboparis.com/upload/fckeditor/files/mejuvexutofog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/zekubem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9e83ed7e4b2c84003f1254ae3514a28/84173491985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchboys.org/userfiles/files/50589215332.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_off0000f0db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0DB 11216 bytes
SHA-256: c4243e9b9a93c561e323fc0fab3264a0e4700d9012f7a62566a742277dc4fa1f
font_01_sfnt_off00010aae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AAE 20028 bytes
SHA-256: 5599a974594323c27d7163ff5298321dbb690c6e0eea2b6d40b5ddff8e1efb67
font_02_sfnt_off00013f3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F3D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1