Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f608d9eead199da2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:36:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 0c3b191f93ad857cfeee7d0c518fe002 SHA-1: 98cf4b742d4952a6b265be70638dccb3348b9c15 SHA-256: f608d9eead199da2c1f9fdae82fa0a66b4ecd777c6303e4c42d1c844db3264cf
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 0.9917

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bitsat+mock+test+papers+free+download+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5babf5c6f6---nubijuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d7817d18b---62202613281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e90c9d1ac6---vogokosoribogodopifeluvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aspbae.org/userfiles/file/samomojejilod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/7167086935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/85419186986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evrenmentese.com/upload/ckfinder/files/67019065309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pearproperties.in/userfiles/file/tagaxeponi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/fipokol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quinta.cl/upload/files/55411112230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorumeo.it/userfiles/files/14468938474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://importfoodfair.com/userfiles/image/2021/08/file/17279737111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161135de712b36---jixidisekibotonij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tverzhilservis.ru/foktver.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34995807354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicfriend.vn/public/default/ckeditor/files/jexupogorav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weingut-suppan.at/files/susawas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcb8c3041c3---gekunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7480e91abde4b03636631d66149ef4ff/diduwaduzuluxuxasuwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/34177590252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/zikurud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/wewaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f56192b296b4a7b37739696315672129/33214121494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/1262161013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/vomoraxamatilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d507e07f51---jaxosozijobulaxusomifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/92115232142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD350 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 1f1dc9a8f20d1a533405251891d826f916e9f7a216ad7dc0e02bdfe2a51bd123
font_01_sfnt_off00010045.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10045 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001185c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185C 11012 bytes
SHA-256: bb0c44fb8ca13bd5e4b0baf5f1f68bc3a4b5165b6ac9d2cf2ee22aa5bcaec513