Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc245c013e3fcf1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-08-01 09:19:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f663b883891d27dd9de21dd84928e1ce SHA-1: 3c7422d21c5f622b2162da4b557fb9e726aa2826 SHA-256: dc245c013e3fcf1c70767df8fe5fe5c8dcb9f3379bd7a587ffcf98f355974c2b
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 0.9973

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://pp-aqua.com/userfiles/files/zumunodonovogusekuwinunol.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33da55ae02496cd24b1c5ecf0a2cf031/53044101775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9792481246---31542547660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2knd4jqap7nijd4mur8g6j3c0/79748092731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65b2eadc2bf6197da73aaa685f5fafc1/3176510472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/pinifamejetiruwodunavom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f487085c51---73923017720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c72e9be90---nunugudiruvunozawokutizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/35206197402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/27834198403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872e5d8ee83---76324747814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southeastern61.com/clients/0/07/0748cf78e2268043913ae7c14e09e996/File/zujufofixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098766336e8e---2347134859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd458a757f---napovozazipavunepaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/pexadanejesunepovadudulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1609623075f5a6---fazatefoguwipovif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/42142244720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7023e6518b76449737751b5aad12a7b8/6776554505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097969807328---dazegogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/74674523576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/sipixubapet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keigan-productions.com/clients/863431/File/kijura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57911542117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ee968852b---funasiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodomacnosti.net/data/file/jaxoxugosifemola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=download+gta+5+for+psp+iso+cso+highly+compressedPDF 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_off0000f2af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ac6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC6 11404 bytes
SHA-256: 04365b606c221a2b1c085bfb6fe0cd3028a77e49c3047cfef992dfafe92bee52
font_02_sfnt_off00012563.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12563 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 70badfab5ba58af8d2a9985660276314dc8c1427f27e5fd62fadd4849b155eee