Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8368c1cd6d2ff9ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:22:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e7b1c5f2898e373a95fb6142ca569cef SHA-1: 515996c61f77ab9540334587282a00dd4532e234 SHA-256: 8368c1cd6d2ff9ca4bdb173b287a07dfdebffd0ef468e95cf491d1d8d2d1d59c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or SEO poisoning attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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
  • 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://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1aaa8c607---nijimoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dca1890552---12124369038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e584bc4f8---17381200611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608086a6bacbe---10134580572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stemcellhairclinic.com/files/files/kuvizaxumelaluxeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muntepa.com/userfiles/files/tasajowegawagoluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/73123094080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b06e47a44---muzifuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/69345041786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f39057132---54177497671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/zawaboludukurusedama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/guwowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/ritetejisuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccc9ad0ae9---fivaperit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/52912995930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/jasivusati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internationalnetworksolutions.net/files/vanenexatuzejodipuselukas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608713db64210---49757134477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-33.ru/media/file/jeven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cab5ae6157a---86585610345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/xasatizikulinimemoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cea152e8a6---56302432471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/44334137625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+apk+app+on+iphonePDF 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_off0001057c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1057C 17552 bytes
SHA-256: b7733e4c41110a8ec92396d35d7190d003b731265e57b7a20cf21c4a85fb2ab3
font_01_sfnt_off0001334d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1334D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014b64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B64 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 532261940d4589e35bc305a22327bd7e22f0a41082c5f5e5cd04814a6ebc7839