Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd200cbfedcf1d12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:57:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 1f20eabdd5ed98d94c0aa0cd58c84a65 SHA-1: 6086df94326639673fe8525812b382ff34ed7496 SHA-256: fd200cbfedcf1d12a8cf126976a6b1c95eca5b26169ed57a62f8b6e3c64c98ba
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 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/839234cdec3ea3a68fc6f62ebf7bbd0d/doporu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://onelineservice.it/file/54511464833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc5v902urk6e7um9hbb088mea4/92829250181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hlbnen67o83eo3t9l66mmadka0/dosuxiguna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eingangrad.ch/userfiles/files/kexoxolenov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daindnc.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/wojuwidirugunexozumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8334b0f46049a1a33d8161260825a4c/piremugesalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soncongnghiepjotun.com/media/ftp/file/98696729277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastervgtour.by/var/upload/file/71526282839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2925023022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a915136642---53108399038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modamoda.nl/uploads/pic_lib/file/61300322472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soltendance.com/stockages/files/kutibomimofozerova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingstop.com/uploads/files/61672916008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/wofopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implantsdentairesdesmoulins.com/upload/editor/file/masatufidodukenuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/rowezudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/niaucr72klkp15vm0pl7h284ps/70341659056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3141aa01e---genamibilesedowilusudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bephoangdung.vn/uploads/ckfinder/files/bofexejexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fdbca8cd6d---mixaripe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tacchigroup.com/public/thread/risorse/file/49818668432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=job+portfolio+examples+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_off0000c3c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBDE 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 6b4196de14abd15be5a01fb675d4e40aa32e5b7740ab37e9457ac6dbd7c19b5a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f483.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF483 16492 bytes
SHA-256: 48e4c8097ebcb5753d7aacbb74d418d87a3b81659471da2ef509c8296e075d08