Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe839e924371bbb9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:05:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: ad17c492cc67ed016f12f9a4fb0fba9d SHA-1: a68b9244925ff75530c71d90ca1c3fc7d8b2f1da SHA-256: fe839e924371bbb930af3ba84097abc01ea8f64b23dadedc93ca2b44ae1d9eed
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 0.9990

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://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgis9k3ip9ie2scgms5jp9k8a7/nolavap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kpnamboodiris.com/userfiles/file/zinofefosotutisuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuhomania.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23095996082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/zavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/58811250159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796e6763492---waweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lowndes85.com/clients/d/d3/d39312ffd46aa2fbcc4e4de04d96a17f/File/91915811611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/43545493086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859cbb9d948---rewojevurep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724dad2615b---dizetewiferadekuwubokewoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/71395368277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202169105253614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6abecc9c545a51a028c674879c7b9146/33334091830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc933f640f386b6da0a9bd6ace9509d7/mifuzuwivokujogiberu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32i9dpdocu16jf0cf7rkhe7as9/keteroliruxiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd7bf6727858d38b390ae6c1cee390e7/nivuzorumape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/if7d7og9c5375uaeqhrg7o3r92/mirutefomekajejimuzila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a542473abf0df8239116cd0f9759b708/27530074539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/021701b859bc1015d44ff2412567bf5d/xixofufutabes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f53a16a7ea---fuxawisavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+mobile+apk+free+download+without+verificationPDF 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_off0000fb9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB9D 18504 bytes
SHA-256: c4c7b56a39b3183419cc0d386a0d9ef86a3a24558880fa3ef844a48a35e3b9d2
font_01_sfnt_off00012aed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AED 11372 bytes
SHA-256: b89ce096af30f44552539f439107364b452cc0456dda8b95bae3d76eebbe67d1
font_02_sfnt_off00014569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14569 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1