Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d946191f01ed0fbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:57:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 01e7143811211b9b35ac48fba5aed4be SHA-1: 27bbe00f5ee5e896adf8fe28471bec47e0909ff1 SHA-256: d946191f01ed0fbca89ea44f0b01980e770cd86c036776b2e8e14cb86e7c3a00
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 0.9975

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://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a931ef9df5c---30639408579.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dreptultau.hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/sisewasubafifuniviposab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijestr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87978162133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/semunujamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe9259d9da---rosagojewupikemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/71209804982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75310626353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/zelitowab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandcougars83.com/clients/2/26/268573c5102cd00412bac87cee9346ec/File/74904741651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adbdbad4a9d---remadaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2it88l7gq3l7qq19lrim81bq11/guzemituxavudemimodibil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210609193611_14jm49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmnn.ru/userfiles/file/sobularanoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc40fa00cc---6298558581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca48f79216---20273481296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papianiarch.it/userfiles/files/87474730384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/66301917964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsa-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98060768628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citescolairedeledit.com/include/file/79975228578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-olomouc.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88527272792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ab81e9d72aa910defa87f0310f4f1c5/kexakopisisikirumufufid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7c4f71ba3---10631439288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a20a56a7456c6cd02b005d300536209/3978445615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicadit.ro/UserFiles/file/nisewimugagasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=biochemistry+book+pdf+freePDF 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_off0000d219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD219 18428 bytes
SHA-256: 60361d4916bae007a6558ff42554485a4b270fb43cfa1a91a55d9dc41fd57067
font_01_sfnt_off000101b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B7 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 921cd4c388e21ebf9ef7ef62115e546c3bc1a404bb2a7facc13c1ddbe643f42c
font_02_sfnt_off00011b07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1