Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb1134254238c650…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-11 14:02:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 43e7276eaf4ad1ce1e2e7d1afa34aaba SHA-1: 4e677f016d39d8258c1c0a0c2707e139ed8db675 SHA-256: fb1134254238c650e2d38717209a1a39e4fc106cbc1b885eaf70e86fa730a13e
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. 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 0.9981

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+naruto+kizuna+drive+ppsspp+highly+compressed PDF link annotation
    • http://multiflex.ru/userfiles/file/gumaposum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.ro/images/file/94273151292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021090602132773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gqdu1b8ccimjcr2mlod2cgu1c1/febubaxijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ecc4b6968---wisiniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/xalovolesasalugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunarent.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90107753691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/jozadudoxirusebopuzafipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszberles.hu/files/files/35824449351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///lewukaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukewittfarms.com/userfiles/file/jumezejizamisupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitabrasive.com/editor_up/65280489040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16307189626406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139c8c300ebb---niveli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a925f10a85---10559396637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35251355224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161359c464d290---53970846066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ba031c1bbf23cbf2ef67845d12acf93/87279966155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tezerwatch.com/file/upload/files/09-05-21-21-17-93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oletrans.sk/editor_uploads/files/73997962151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mifatosizoleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13613593103.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_off0000ce7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE7C 11480 bytes
SHA-256: 1108627809f1c5e8dd3a97352abaaa881df5ffb57421f56e994a2b84ffeac474
font_01_sfnt_off0000e95c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE95C 18880 bytes
SHA-256: 66d72b243427d08e9938415b46979cdd3da39d0d9cebfa73be4b451a9847b956
font_02_sfnt_off00011ac7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1