Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8484fd876b56e5b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-05-25 08:46:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 857c39b9ffbae59cc16c17b09b0539e5 SHA-1: 5074682b0db58fe462b14e789b3fa62edad7feb6 SHA-256: 8484fd876b56e5b638c1451f5b7eb8472cd6a48799932291874afeb21f2834a0
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 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+jazz+cash+without+internet PDF link annotation
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870d5028da3---wewasuvuvalewisugavafolej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b885dc9619---74683315717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/32365250297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f867b2b62e24be678a007b6528d3c0e/teretajuvudifine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jsenobtq5g2cibot9bg5v6d35q/26866214618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e73928c8bb---17437319635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090499a5a239---73934897175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qsnso02u1ucrg7huttp6s9vu4/19217439886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/87325279218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87a75515545c505631b2e9f96f669695/8885484573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eksan-ltd.com/userfiles/file/38837743153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bc458475e---7047246487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba80f4a8241a723a9705a0362feacdc8/lezus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/368a18d3fa566a046228e24a8d180c9b/puwuwapukuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a480186a6cb---21802383094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609450ca01d46---kumafowivug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b42b7e292043ae5cd4583f0d6e2d7f40/xudidujesubidojutuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000daee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAEE 5036 bytes
SHA-256: 8b91d0cfbf7fde352f075b08b3b7d73af2a905986c3e04055553085e72424139
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1E 11176 bytes
SHA-256: d063d1460186694b072be9c68bcc673d1733837c407707e6f348cc77d25f67d0
font_02_sfnt_off000111d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111D2 16348 bytes
SHA-256: 14ee147643e0e310d5613d3476f894581f83de3409c4662996fb1c12ab24bae2