Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8516d58dbdbd0466…

MALICIOUS

PDF

147.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:08:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 2f9a3bef0a7d715156a36e8afbe6dc5a SHA-1: 7b6d22891d2eb95ec464d810d3c0da5098021cdd SHA-256: 8516d58dbdbd0466e279ab4e351abd8580600f888830b4497dffff58cf396812
156 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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=corrosion+tests+and+standards+application+and+interpretation+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com//fck_files/file/76785299459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/101378781660c704df57e58.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ae07202193d8d618e8fd8f6ae060c7a/69756398840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/3738029706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ujj0111ojh1fftr00dtkleia74/9600989175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83625545047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/zewibawafox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bd4d12ffacb5d4b68cc366a5eabf2b2/42305166126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/saxifemale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607465bca44f0---91523481220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608addb08a044---ramizaturidixuzikonid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cahayaapi1.com/contents//files/rosuxave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/10518217350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvk923epdb2sv6429o815ek0t7/4502982495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rra51m60tv30t142qvhfsunuee/14473477501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52143849654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/51398942621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d302be242f3---sigevetatitaxeziwolosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/sobafuzulixudokeruvak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5172d3155da3cbff8d5c8573edb3959e/26433782559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c1c5124ee---10305488322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ochoadentalcare.com/tacgestorcontenidos_ochoa/documentos/file/suzilamobawixeboturowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggmtc.net/userfiles/files/19093931222.pdfIn 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://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_off0001da30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DA30 20224 bytes
SHA-256: b35a6579e8259e45712edf0aa2bf7c7a1c7e35165d3527670bc64ac8dd138b12
font_01_sfnt_off00020f9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20F9B 10644 bytes
SHA-256: ad3b92d3f6a7fa0002763c427529c712e6c01d3e10d55a7be4aec319b6820374
font_02_sfnt_off00022816.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22816 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1