Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd9e5369315fcc8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-24 01:04:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: f5093f0311983499eee62fb4a80ebc01 SHA-1: 9efe9d895d75453bde55b761fd78aa0ba0ba0f32 SHA-256: fd9e5369315fcc8dc0374ed3ef0223f88e7929ce9610c0205427246278f4dd53
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-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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rbse+books+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0841lkp9k1bu7o42nca9mda8fe/61278046472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qp8q3h7lgu6fi7piek9ofr8d43/tezozudinuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file/%5C/58883894869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ce75b290e---jukekifefedujalar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoeing.by/pics/files/gobetekusekoxiluzibidedef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160addac94c5c6---39122823829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/17667256319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871a814662f---49903231459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834d98970cb---50549158825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68e6e0e0b59a9705c11318c4c6e47ca4/teninidawipajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqvv32t6cibpum0i95inb9di63/nekevininojojoziwezif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d488c8f97d91bbdf22f77236110d038/rilidasatasowupavima.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
    • 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_off0000d2bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2BC 4908 bytes
SHA-256: f7ef0049a30531899e2e8e13b8eb5fad7b17cf1b4358d0f1c8f54534dacaf42a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE387 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 0619595d498899c12bc54b5353d8688147d51505dcb40b6dad6b8dce6f11bf45
font_02_sfnt_off000108c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C7 6328 bytes
SHA-256: 84e6ab7504c1469c7abd59881db92432311d1fd5b1b3a9949a8d27e6eb96c310