Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86dc8e8c6f21a735…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-19 08:55:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 99a5014968ec9bf8b3e88d8e4165caba SHA-1: f09acc79764c080d6aa343a60d5251c6074e9ce5 SHA-256: 86dc8e8c6f21a73589c84605563b1ede0232d80c6ed607efc25d8ec80c0d0962
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 0.9942

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://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c152b01d6---31930135524.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19373a2815af436fb7e354fe890f41a8/jowezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gid6g0kqruddetck9cg9dk9kl1/wumewekolimedag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ae54f379644a947f7a4759d7ff2c634/23768552551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b338a2d155375240390076a64ebfb21b/vuxibobananowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prokoncept.hu/admin/blogfck/image/file/35597940759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d594c4cecc8b8ce097fcf45300c2767a/bebafoxojurarez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/1874221502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/11890114145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/zoferexuzitoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/kesowipimifigel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607997d86b875---48908727113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ade541971f1ef8afe0c34317a3f045f/vedaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links.com/images/blog//file/73862787065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/29607242722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arablift.net/userfiles/file/77143899328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7809132695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41ac28d14cf3050c7f6aef2059f549a0/japafakizevapirekaxuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/dodigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-fonika.pl/upload/file/tutaxojokugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51183d66253727547c9b748d16831a92/pelabini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/norejamuvemalonuminudejil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/604e0e936d7810daa0a8353c278181d4/74078378575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadever.vn/Images_upload/files/61929678676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42941779749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ben+barnes+chronicles+of+narniaPDF 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_off0000ef7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF7D 18336 bytes
SHA-256: 6ea8787a795e3bfb398de443a3a0efece59d4382c73df3e3ebb89639b334607a
font_01_sfnt_off00011f64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F64 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 79ea323b0ad7adcd2827d8f9bd8dae82eae64330e70779493d9db35cf9ba530d
font_02_sfnt_off0001374a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1374A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1