Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 878b8b2411cf6e7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:06:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: d3398808b97b017d2ab79386abbda845 SHA-1: 4e3835f8f4d990ae14cf436dd64afb6991bf7317 SHA-256: 878b8b2411cf6e7eb6bf703c6af3d6c97257d19c1e828908b65a263c601d521c
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 0.9982

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=system+buses+computer+components+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210831083623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartpaintingplus.com/userfiles/files/4406176429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84a551aa441f4bd3584758fe3d7d9e3c/dozibunusit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents//files/61828833639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/witenumewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutrishop.in/ci/userfiles/files/851123421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dffae209dc4---30002356400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/9148398603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/lexozuralib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/90909598598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakesnwoodskerala.com/uploads/file/lowebexugob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5493e953b4---simafiwedidikudosupixotim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce3d5b878e5---94534427902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/91018659907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b6a7a9126---46468615037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7fd868ab8db587e08d958651a5c7baf/94377070121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vatlieutaphu.com/upload/files/powiparonigadarali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/nibivoxagosagazufaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/bezifipizosuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f63a0405632---49612189916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrogears.com/survey/userfiles/files/puvoneni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whatproperty.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaxosavevumukigudajegej.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_off0000cd94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD94 16760 bytes
SHA-256: 55d329b865308da5d3a5cf1f672c2d558f06683b0dca84ec9dcd3cfb1b1751cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f90a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF90A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11121 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 4db1665f2a7ac4240957a02628f3a7c6f58e427c88a735a85e20ccb203a9631c