Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7230d9d8574fb2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-06-24 06:00:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: e133d55d211473aeb04a5c4c705bc9c9 SHA-1: 74dfa1009edb02665d23098c74af1982fb274830 SHA-256: e7230d9d8574fb2b493f164942af5a8dfda043d16ae463f8b738e9cec333cb82
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 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2jenokvheovvpi90d14hd2r0i/86200113762.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdr5dq7dpdpo0hu8hj3hrtqdub/vekusewebutin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kildevangen.dk/files/wovuleradalad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1bba87f5816ef49498d162200c5212f/mitadizurupagafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b1c18ae0a1d51cebb2d4a7c1008e0f1/fokirupuxabezuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796d7e8e287---97080308485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/70725443348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/gubusaposulezenuxunezaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db590d9b3a---lukupobexadutululanako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83e42c0b23891bfd870277266c33e2ca/58495515284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210614200646394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ruwanogite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731d41ce281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1cbf3763c3---xuwuzunoladeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b622f0437424aab420ae7fa6e99c2b0b/80068253936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5d2f2dfa5---66992964935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b21nleovbd5oqo7lrb5d24bvdm/jidarikinilixexedubaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=lagu+dear+god+mp3PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cebc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEBC 5172 bytes
SHA-256: 206ac898152e3eae73c00635e53fd4310c142d1dd92fd143728368ddf29d3ec5
font_01_sfnt_off0000e03d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE03D 6500 bytes
SHA-256: c84eab6392f90ca55dc76e1b637b485875911fd1620d718d5149b6056b997fc0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f11d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF11D 11448 bytes
SHA-256: 0f56a2e1063abce5bec4f9a28ff0f1d00698874617bb1faef8688b78218a28bd