Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe2eca9773c6210b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-12 20:48:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 974b9733b17be32917e36d5a40a8de68 SHA-1: 47e0c9c5b874e720c2cdc7484c336a266820a3b2 SHA-256: fe2eca9773c6210bf73373d0abf473d8190abc3c303ae59a7412874464a7529c
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 0.9996

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=justin+bieber+beautiful+mp3+download PDF link annotation
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae6e99c763---45358611270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5720a57c00---47149009471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9be1bc8dded0a28a91ad5ec002a3da08/xowajukizaxevovako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/kagakilalebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/fukatokokazumupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2a306b4a3---91863033885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/lufiwaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/jazaxuvov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809573e0c6f---nifevadavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/dizenegep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52tp825s7i47u0k47kjs09m7r1/35900567321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087894846aaa---49576792639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/dijoguzekegemaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4553690503bebb1c66af6e3490debc5/lepavupifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6bkaajio7acnppv9cbc1kcnm6/22320951569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C9 5572 bytes
SHA-256: 59f4658bc60b2f50e4328575caf94bdde3b3a6aada8ca5f572d15c1ffe9e0de0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AA 6008 bytes
SHA-256: 206522e8ccb52c501ba36e6878372026f81a13534aae6d4d47ca0654482c8e3c
font_02_sfnt_off00010a4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A4E 17868 bytes
SHA-256: b8d6136534bc8883a87923f2ceb1a917458d2f080e49e29d978bc657418a0dfe
font_03_sfnt_off00013901.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13901 16624 bytes
SHA-256: b6b0cfdeab4f91e725fe1579368bb08f7b5b0ad0b12eae02ead67ced8b150b30