Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8092a035978104a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2021-06-18 17:36:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 1543a17c0c4a584651eae9eff9c81d57 SHA-1: f80317102b88d67e334a7bdacdc7f98b6d28f828 SHA-256: f8092a035978104a6220a89cdadaa39f1012825a5e00b92a921c445b1df08f23
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 0.9998

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.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5239b89ad2---25307542677.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fcc91c15516ee49b1127eb0095eac2f/tabuniwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/282ipkrifladal98fsla32kkmj/94567473816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a84e2574e6---mipoxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082025d46510---17097572378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870f8926ee0---35441430441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/gujidegisokawukuninul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835f8bc52c6---13189530266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff745087550eb5d4c03766f0035efb8e/75154973654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c47696ab4ba---titovifivuzetolajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/45559669129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd36ece6211bef607661ff714abad014/momolijibinij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suroboviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0a4a45b72---48032774607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/78751326837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d86e873c0---63873696675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=kallajodu+college+papa+mp4+audio+song+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bb6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB6E 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 49d28954110edad0be028777fe3d544dc021706689e5c8791f6f2fb5d5ac9d76
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE4F 4080 bytes
SHA-256: 0cf7608c3e187921fc79c8896f11d42a36fc28ae0e9f564c7c69ad9163a1f0b8
font_02_sfnt_off0000ddcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDCB 10152 bytes
SHA-256: 94ba869431b860aa3362dc0d5294a294ce29fa5ba6628dfaa68839a4d3293fde