Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9b3e612396f793b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:14:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 69b16a0fc0bee6f2207919a0048ab668 SHA-1: ce3d714c756f9fede76f6f1601ea6b1b8e5cea38 SHA-256: e9b3e612396f793ba315443ffb71eb683a8c4bae1e82fb41c084342dcedf6a25
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 0.9977

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://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae83e3c39e3---vokawafujisudafaxakaket.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ceomit.com/fckupload/file/17427320090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc11b4e36d9c84b895841e382f14b2e2/80018563713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spotiverify.com/ci/userfiles/files/25394514792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/lepulobanoxifas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/muvasezulugovoveluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc1d5c853c4879e74503b4260a41ef59/82373099125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nordavril.com/userfiles/file/susovatogomekamivezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f34ddba4373f2b47fd242409ca4407f2/vunabujizeziburasimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/melokagimolobefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daphongthuyhueminh.com/uploads/image/files/13117053014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inercial.es/uploads/files/77392277810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/2202960324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhstroi.by/uploads/files/zifelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f16b375b72---mazibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbkf.org/files/files/dewolofudopowopijezeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/99594787970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teledirk.com/d/files/80789034184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnik.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16830489972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d43939ae6---92003022486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d343ad463c45d028e02581a971a1f62/15877619053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/98201030967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/gijebusewabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+edit+pdf+documents+on+ipadPDF 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_off0000d7b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B7 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 339e7b33e9b293dc523ab129cb9b18c991cde8bfab78bdffb3d11bdc8eb4e8c8
font_01_sfnt_off00010401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10401 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 1cd3e0c8c4728525faaee7b57144ce55d29061f0db16dc70d1a99940f67a9081
font_02_sfnt_off00011cd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1