Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fec4b10357b42b68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:04:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 8f2c78b015c8c90595ee056b098451e9 SHA-1: 931b7ccbc41fb2c9a790698bd7d3734d0ee5780e SHA-256: fec4b10357b42b68c1a4939a158330f073eb0e1c2c0ef8ebc5f85218ca5c951d
164 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. 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 0.9910

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://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16127061270a78---42076280327.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneramato.com/userfiles/files/20317206180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b797f5b1d80---70039568208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766d214ba93---51766422807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/lasoluxeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregoryshow.ru/files/file/wikewikuxaderezefili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smelawservice.com/file_media/file_image/file/38880661005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b137h4hkctrsdlv12lvj0450j0/44848550540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ektiokkeimbg8n41btbt648o4/ruxudovesekanoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5eb56gs4hq17iquojcuv326v3/gemogiluxunifuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0882e70e05---begolezutodeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trimix.bg/UserFiles/File/51266224196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/tonaxazumovopapisog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e5001f3152---708958438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/67213756259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88597196042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/99483855418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75321ffc26d37bb740004d06a04f715a/nuxofinovig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af1e4eed472e8fdf08eadb7641ce9895/97223540015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/87580098346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanillasky-ch.com/images/files/sexixijawinami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113dc4b4a625---61963230801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dad822ece02---muforivaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842f98d324d---dagararuxidoguto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///29466245890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=obs+studio+manual+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011650.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11650 16616 bytes
SHA-256: 06f1d5f5a9083a80364da0885936c8ddb2848b41a67694407b5e75bff462a068
font_02_sfnt_off00012d93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D93 19664 bytes
SHA-256: de65e2bbda212619de7ed916c880b2c21c06dac1b0c4ee341bef43c778b8956c
font_03_sfnt_off00016112.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16112 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 23bce326a46fe7fcd31ce89909cccb0a43bc1282c7f71d360dfbe469cc5c249f