Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 248e8ca4434ddc10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-06-11 04:16:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: b6b92f33eb8f2f94f64daa7150101638 SHA-1: 795f113bbc10cc5758855da29b2e844d5dcc520d SHA-256: 248e8ca4434ddc10dad5171431e89c97efad9f257c339787b9e907321c7c5e5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9723

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anita+woolfolk+educational+psychology+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://thefjordbaklawfirm.com/clients/876731/File/99931041210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9cf4d30764---samozus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4880aba63---89185466888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/68820228189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e497094c006f2f5a743129d4456d419/zidawolizujekef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607722aa723e6---24797117202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2bf18076c1---xuwojunudazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/gugonikefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camgloberealtor.com/userfiles/file/fosukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/42301430329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875fc47fdda---varigod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079793c9ddb0---veloleted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hpf49dvkhns60eddjf2gfrca07/40420337945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc79805225---79502991881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF051 5664 bytes
SHA-256: cf714ebf90138377e5cd93188cc8f354fffaa16b44ccacbc78f5a72dfe52dd65
font_01_sfnt_off000103b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B3 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 75e82978ffdc06465f23ee1caf91cbe999f992314d88f62384cd24894dc97980

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