Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8140f3ebdedf4519…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:27:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 20848bf26a66ed721d9d82ee9c70b85f SHA-1: 38c469f5119e710216dc305902956ae7b98b0c7b SHA-256: 8140f3ebdedf4519cd97b30985b4a28f871360a009e1e1b636d00a3f6f7910f2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://photou.cc//ckfinder/userfiles/files/63492760698.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gphs84.com/clients/866382/File/bezesipewepoboxaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607953361a882---66083301036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxstep.nl/userfiles/file/52146260623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/98406583168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16b3ed46f20ac4c0a1936208b3b80a6c/guberipofizibibizib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diclenakliyat.com/userfiles/file/bowabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/87692313709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/bifez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaint-house.com/images/blog//file/mejonibero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://successstudio.net/userfiles/file/dupolowede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a789edd9bb---gefodukudoxoxugazisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birgatour.mn/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11722682019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darkoyunpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/lajukenawirofivete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/73375447945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d31a980fd---9554312031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612978a19cece---xanufevekedilit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltwhitmanclassof1965.com/clients/c/cc/ccbfa8a87e297cd67510599b8aebcb74/File/88899616192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/716qe1vie29ojeh4fr60ejqq8j/24612648979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullx.net/files/92553606844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongxuyen.org/upload/files/24491708903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/netjlou8u8p8k5rlpkb2f0cqu6/movegawavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bef03999a110f39893a9faafee6b8fa6/fozelabetaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ev9orpehtp6jtdj8vpjjbpfb80/biwavabuwitul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=simoniz+pressure+washer+repair+manualPDF 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_off0000e00b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE00B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f822.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF822 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 3a34580932159996a9bf34c2094fd04f5669fa975303bb23672dd0678c300405
font_02_sfnt_off0001109e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1109E 17024 bytes
SHA-256: c6b705a804ba98aed2c4bcadb5c07361aed8c58790eab4eb01b4d18e1fa2b184