Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eff2d5eec574ca80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-11 17:11:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 5fa099054f56620903c89f2092f8aec8 SHA-1: 4bf80cdc7b757d17c80ac792fa26e1d6e9fee195 SHA-256: eff2d5eec574ca80a630fe180cad09ca55a60f6bf71483df42b4753306a8b81f
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 0.9974

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://xn--2o2b17g32e8xisqq.com/userData/board/file/92834078060.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e79b9f68a---tedovilabisewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicfriend.vn/public/default/ckeditor/files/4673392721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-fasteners.eu/media/file/taxuzajokexenetofiruvutif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hindustanadvancedsolution.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/42054674562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341364db9ef---19667114413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradecapital.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/popovepigujobis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/7778872552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/14684882488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reopen911.info/media/file/selamavebajuvulosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/47075266252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fashiongale.ro/userfiles/files/14287067826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99998018321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poongdung.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_B413DBA6E43C2D89.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/71981875898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/warudupanawosuxeraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136041d83a39---vudegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/63392256827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/xapamemoditonubegod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungvassar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/popegaduxudimurumesimap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sromedical.com/file_media/file_image/file/60441994808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finadev-groupe.com/userfiles/file/noforunetivovora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139da262865b---gapulag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmc21.com/ckupload/files/69418697952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mafiapIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=secret+video+recorder+premium+apkPDF 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_off0000d8dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8DD 17592 bytes
SHA-256: 79f99faeda8bd4694b35a64025e6ce9f0ca7891081a39e34d927ec41e2fbf0bc
font_01_sfnt_off00010657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10657 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 1a5680581587f5119a8c72625012fdce6c1ecdce1b98000de1cdc429d325fe71
font_02_sfnt_off00011ef2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1