Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d97b3e77b46e0f48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:33:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 169a1faeb8c233503411293ad6125b26 SHA-1: a2078cf3784732e172f597b03038e9e28507915a SHA-256: d97b3e77b46e0f4862d1aa91d8cde76fde8bb06d80afc38777ad64420a20c9a2
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 http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/56819430970.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2fa9252b64---56332842710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b389a06931a---patuvesebirekufevid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epkbjkcqpu2mrpajqg3tfno4t3/18545704522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82774f5ff74c79635c2086d8873f989d/bibeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ac27d5561---vemolijibavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fd6a2f1f97---fugezop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scpt.it/userfiles/files/vodanet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/merorekew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/labaxokujigoxuxexew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3eab941db7---mugatafipegap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdq1ocbven8hcnt4jqvq56ougg/82212287228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recrut.com/files/files/gelilolipulup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-9/file/poraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/debaduvozotuvaxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ebd2a817c---54454484090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33eb378000b2143db45f2afec01d2990/fobogadix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/51095157232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0106fabba778c353ec2800b8c370b02c/takuxisozubanakojolodof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/642d2c1e19cc64e25a546228f803a31f/58016405123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4x4autok.hu/userfiles/files/20227775767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcroyale.hk/userfiles/xifovewimekasiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f96855938ee---daxeboronedelatinotevikeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=teel+paragraph+worksheetsPDF 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_off000100da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100DA 18312 bytes
SHA-256: 48035db2edaf1deb944a66255f7fad3ee261cde4c138383fe80f254fc1b2f40e
font_01_sfnt_off00012fcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000147e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147E6 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 21ca54a88cb23da224cad0c2448b337638d2ded6f13ad5c6f13df7b5ed55508e