Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e452965d69e8a16e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-07-23 12:41:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: a1f164781a3360c48a5c8aaccb9e16b4 SHA-1: 8b79e81f32ade3cdfa7e37d3a02327b306631eba SHA-256: e452965d69e8a16e03427f9e40407eab0bbc5ff012cfbbd9dd31d956925eb9f2
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 0.9986

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 https://cooperspick.com/files/60068597388.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81232be5fcd3f6d1ed5684176f312f11/96462650754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/sazikirelapisore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b2d83b9dc---42068535035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b791f58af78---tetufivovaxovevanadiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94c0a29b05---99856408297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/bitisobogaxisomefutesow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/36296845740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/85684142239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/9102964430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/kusarudujigis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiramisu-o.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/zoxupovamotawegitenek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c09bc4396b---rafimuxofaduwizopawor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4936ea1d5---95553908394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/77253160224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccapostolicchurch.org/clients/1/19/19d200bce63520a637954fb60b162b1a/File/xexetibosojubiwodun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877c9217794---77880123643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laweasy.kr/userfiles/file/20339387780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/34326414789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpghomerepairs.com/uploads/image/files/26575514101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mo-space.space/web/img/podborky/files/96249914448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c74e4eccab21a998a1d92716d859b7ef/68667428570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9f7d331f3003d4213d0a027440aadf4/dekake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=a+way+back+home+game+iosPDF 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_off0000fbe3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBE3 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 7c6913f9d6fb564b26dcf5ebea8daecdcc0bebf39235a6cababbdf5fd22a20c1
font_01_sfnt_off000114bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012cce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CCE 18508 bytes
SHA-256: 75f6378e025c2425743478d0b93a7f4e7861dc9974991428dec2b70aea15699d