Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f17ea91212ba5662…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 12:49:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 97a5d2f685337756ecfafc4b1e74ed52 SHA-1: 7310efd123074c274939a72e02072a5aaa701b8e SHA-256: f17ea91212ba56628cdf96ae257e4bbb45f6588bd99f5b8ecff58381e7f872be
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 0.9947

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.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dn1t2ecf5q79q5ib4n9fdb8f22/8524197051.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b9463e83209d1401763a6173b26ea3c/80175298792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0bb1cc47ad---66933947880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/614bdb9376e8e28585cd234f4c0769b2/boxiloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46d6872858bde3ced1e392e04ca5160c/30810848514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0fa53706b1---jorujumujipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/lakolonojawitijemom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/70747592835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p5adlomn0dd00hrq9cfdrn83i0/pomevonanutoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0912da74d323fb80cfeccbd04b4afe8c/10071927982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/86327303535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/jijow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liubeauty.com/luutru/files/69270869221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saens-jpn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36088375566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ec3667a3b---wizaramunorobapufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/177e67db04a0678894460bc417f617aa/merabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saokienviet.com/uploads/image/files/70910496537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baggiez.net/userfiles/file/bexuxorabitekefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieompaysdebray.fr/lesiom/txt/imgadmin/file/dojetatitibonika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6aea6765233389708cfc0f49c1ad37c/wijixolilizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0f3233506---57695562504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59724088007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5219c248cd08b35dabd3340917d7b839/41864979825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/xutunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=city+of+lost+souls+online+pdfPDF 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_off0000f986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF986 17212 bytes
SHA-256: fa50d61d6528ab859592eacfdddb0650ef2a66e00fdf8d551ca54a798bab0c7d
font_01_sfnt_off000125de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125DE 10472 bytes
SHA-256: e7e5b7281c7a4ebb3b9ab166019c7f95e25ff64732ceb182951a296d1e6d3f82
font_02_sfnt_off00013dda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1