Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8872cab4ce9044c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:38:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 50a90cae1d4e94972549737097acf117 SHA-1: 2474ba2c343a751aa5de2256f1f52dc88611c70c SHA-256: 8872cab4ce9044c5edbc52a8000d775fb9764d342db221792a5cd3ecfb4e79be
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 0.9975

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+computer+network+and+its+types+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcd19m7nqpe66ksbhtg3bqmqc7/52970576731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childhood-matters.com/clients/49507/File/movixunibogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/90919188413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deaprogettazioni.it/userfiles/files/vaguroxuzabiluno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contrast.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69772187751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0be071a1be1d9dcf5a7ca3ab0627750d/xeragikidifunani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenworx.eu/images/uploads/files/texujorarozibedariwoxone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700694de3a5---88212299942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpempresa.cen.es/userfiles/files/volotuketiwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/727c5dc314724aaeb17f3033532af6c3/wumonuguzedinowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drkoopman.nl/cmsimages/file/paduralekukuvipadezanova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12084530922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ab4e5f963505fa863088b3a6ccd5b9b/rikefazukosokeporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608a8c0cbea42---ruvisakuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094906e891b1---wejinemidonap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldwalia.com/userfiles/files/26006859626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/getetapijaxezif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/128b914076729a93cbd47136ac1e6df9/89521758957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7j9dn1ous8deojcqc0atp2cs8r/947499765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124fb32eda4c---97144884786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/bapekitogepepesanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/13802818028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-028.com/userfiles/file/20210630082729_odglnz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/98218774431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/japobepa.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_off0000dad3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2EA 11224 bytes
SHA-256: de4da6d95f63e9d80b99fbdfb7edfe795ef262f600397e3ea9774da513e17375
font_02_sfnt_off00010d1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D1E 17236 bytes
SHA-256: bca361b11863bd8a4fe989b41c4c5acdf346096d33a5655beb134f1c948e842e