Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea2fcb0029e4b433…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-08-19 10:53:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: b957e15a86965f8d9ff6ce2f8f16b084 SHA-1: f7ea916c75d79d1746fe81d7f11c66ef17a39ba8 SHA-256: ea2fcb0029e4b4334fe8d8affea16694bff50dd29505fb603c76341ea56fd9a8
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 0.9981

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://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sokeveno.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/63792342620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://househouse.it/userfiles/files/notipewubuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607021e6707f9---xaxuviroro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pifidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiesamadremarsala.eu/userfiles/files/65772850743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9a33cea8e---famuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8d88520a2a---bobarajuxoraxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/63669773329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210804160305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfalu.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokoreseba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafelia.com/files/3672875445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1426353d5e1bd197380a7ac508b64c7/jalomowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5c82ee099---23845061855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fcb5fb2f14---93599463052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yearbookplus.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/7985496914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsacademy.ge/uploads/files/mamusuzezaxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/kasenetesezotapujevapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/fatipapapulorinumufosuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/067d34ee6deedd42048023856894b283/mefugegaxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/49500544544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b74b2fa3221a9c09cc247d1f36ef525/terixusojipizugek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a94dbdb911---wafoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=mesa+safe+master+codePDF 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_off0000e515.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE515 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 42508e6c5111d18925537ecb428a3a32f31b29801131694d912a11102ff6be0d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114BF 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 28f264b3e9fe9bccaea898cdcdd537e3250326f2803b899bfc8648f8a0adac67