Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f89f6e93b3d81eea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-08-13 19:53:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 62d59a07bdc216867d118559d9bb37bc SHA-1: 116ee9bb20191a8a28061f002ce3cc2d716a0d81 SHA-256: f89f6e93b3d81eea197a720dd1513a1ea420b1bb7f01bcb2a36bbd7bb4fc9560
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 0.9979

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://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/zemulekeruxowugulem.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9b558b469---lugoxaretotenaromigulefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanthueviet.vn/img_data/files/datibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxiparga.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e49760247283dd30b09d975c94030a4/5382359966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dvg.asia/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/10648854335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verticala.ro/images/userfiles/buvanen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/076d72d835d9bad1edc02750dbe2abd3/91223854046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/83252411239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://falconshipping-uae.com/userfiles/files/nijezipokiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080991052dcd---48077528199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890ce6930b1---tawusemadurakopibope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msnladyboy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/favataxirubototopuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/73079811376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25d4a9e2539df99d1ffe18c33dd54406/58287447756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/limigidora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/gizisunifapajodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/fadofupinezufuwuzowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/mewifepetuvuwavipimek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfc94a1b3d3---40487585356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2cfb682c8---12836828916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace65f34464---92739021905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moskvaznaet.ru/upload/files/sikajajiridu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=rbse+class+12+biology+practical+book+pdf+download+in+hindi+mediumPDF 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_off0000f262.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF262 19080 bytes
SHA-256: 96ca217ff3a2a106d1effab571dbc2d4a00a5cb3bf5bdec48fdeb63e2d739dc8
font_01_sfnt_off00012449.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12449 11816 bytes
SHA-256: af84e7178a92e04ad3eff18a35c30ea86a344c9c5933a20175d3946a30e41d92
font_02_sfnt_off00014023.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14023 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1