Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e381d1f297265235…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:08:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 66e048929a8dfcd17bbf487b350183aa SHA-1: 34ccff985c9ed103fe640d6101c92cfcfeb66c6e SHA-256: e381d1f2972652358b9f78653f6d1c9a24c198c9037f32c0c63feca883dc7ead
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 0.9829

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://iziusb.com/userfiles//file/nisowexomizuvog.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d5o2l6hitsgteh068e4shnsir/89703985752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af77edf3ada---jaredaboxufuxodoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giftboxvietthuy.com/upload/ck/files/33179974160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5ea3f5562613b97c76a9ce5c2ac4135/43594625328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suseefinance.com/userfiles/file/zenasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/zamerujovebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://araprinter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16185641373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf8a04d8b9---metupikeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb4d18142b88bbe67716f44150efbdfe/xiwurukonepisegofugixumul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098832966d65---logokeramopujomusobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/sosupajozatisip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a198b3e02c7---99461616704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/89268776146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamslakeband.org/userfiles/file/detonebadofaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/77999862950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latgalesamatnieki.lv/files/file/15182047179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.ru/upload/67628418452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palirna-frydek.cz/uploaded/file/56970086959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe601cca273b755dd2e8c8ee75f97c9a/tafiwafewizunavodole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oodow.cn/upload/file/210618002522136324s8lv0mbpj1d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/968fd24c64fc69ccbaa3aec69bff19be/31591735556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sanruou.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/xejokezididibavutivinuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/84657399775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5306ee1d5613f892c3de8310600cafe/wibisotefafago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncunse.com/d/files/kafupejugaxabuxozuwiter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=advanced+biochemistry+textbook+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_off0000c746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC746 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF5D 11336 bytes
SHA-256: fecfdfd4f14cbadc9a8d7925aca5271829eb51c817efd707918062a8180cb2d5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9B4 18480 bytes
SHA-256: b6cd408cfb029dc94f1d0239d3f7281771fe3463635c011575795aa21a95badf