Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0ce491492eeb7d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:56:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: ed3ac10cdc5f240e56658c0313c9cc05 SHA-1: 8fe21457d1de9fdee57cd581082abf6354c04091 SHA-256: e0ce491492eeb7d8af5179794228604d8a2138fbe91511e618b3d11c490c2cc0
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 0.9917

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://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e45292e0432---98292349681.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8820ad07b2f9d10cbd11749bdef1734e/sipodigavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9820e1457---58768929413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/vomikokamatelat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zge-led.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/bikifakijiratuvesurogope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///jatonositumibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/2021951312448893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/14891075742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aparcaderoshaddaichile.cl/uploads/images/files/37045735698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84f3653f0bfdcfc76640b462d2bbe4b8/mewunuvesinesileno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syarmarka.ru/userfiles/files/kavovemubexasefiboxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com./blog/images/file/52558410835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad1f35b0f3a---3644963370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c675f4d1132d4c6048dc3f65941d297/16090508129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/xonenevuzefoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/bivisugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qualityitalia.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27250827051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/4460606762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecaf81d09ab4ca1258484bdbb0a4aef1/60942326643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/buxure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepsforstarlight.org/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/88720625573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/46013657885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5685c9ef4---12022271258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/noxutovalodiget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcviet.com/img-phuctri/files/ralunamabivejivafivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.integra-cr.cz/administrace/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19992876598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=up+police+constable+2018+result+pdfPDF 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_off0000db0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB0A 17824 bytes
SHA-256: 05a1ac7c8e030433d606a003c3fd2fca94f0b2d97f4cac648ed9d63ee592595d
font_01_sfnt_off000109b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CA 11364 bytes
SHA-256: 266823391d8da0c6a4aedf7f0e0093ed5b554b2e931fa114dd5853920ed7add0