Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff32f948bb289398…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:46:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: a3f3316c612865190cf068fb1333344e SHA-1: 47f6429389254e653554a1ce44c8b4fb9090f56c SHA-256: ff32f948bb28939816c3cf29227c2a75510dd983a5cee25c04060420077e8da6
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 0.9980

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://ssmahavidyalaya.org/lion/uploadedfiles/fck/files/file/46824482473.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/guufn8j9bhhvr1r5vm88uf311n/16290295729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiguan-wiki.ru/file/28600817112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/63615435040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1961.com/clients/6/6a/6a73a08bb68f643008adb5efbbb44e43/File/98534076634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariogiardinelli.it/userfiles/files/89427307535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patronusalapitvany.hu/public_html/upload/98757115174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shatalarab-llc.net/userfiles/files/bagipotuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/juxujapereton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebakotb.net/userfiles/file/kaxudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/95341497896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111eb3959740---weguva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odesignlab.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13011612997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e0967d7e91969a84ee2d00cdacb3689/61334056431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/41130534359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c157e6821f9---gexupakudotipexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/demufufasuzufasafafasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rezijixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dzerzhinskij.ru/upload_picture/file/37541668218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakedua.com/contents//files/zopalim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/papolitijinekito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0ngr1b5aqfhgjm0a70kuoe1hq/wufowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/739d9617829b796e8deab6c27ff22715/81355549073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanhoaphat.vn/userfiles/file/24878921954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/62825388747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=tracing+letter+lPDF 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_off0000c5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5DE 17412 bytes
SHA-256: 2a68c9c08fbb6f90c27f417b8c7ba033305fc6b510b29e777d7267ad7d0d93ce
font_01_sfnt_off0000f356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF356 10080 bytes
SHA-256: baff4eade50559826e7cd58bd62fa7472b301d7fab37e9b1499bf8c69eddc861
font_02_sfnt_off000109e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1