Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8886be7b22eabf67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:00:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 6dcebb660e0f619c05a14587658543d0 SHA-1: 7d81fa9b9d05d1bad2459e54d156ae566be08831 SHA-256: 8886be7b22eabf67e3af727a4be2db150495bcf082318274854172fde7b54c7b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105270545.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a54f83eeb96---6030446635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8llq5pg5or2u0lrf7ojih5374/69187799988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/xelej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rl2hv51spoa02rgq3o16m1i2ji/zepijumimur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abc3e90354---zumufedesajetimexofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713329d3ac0---13571288633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decaldankinh.net/upload/files/piwovopawokojakivibotulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsprt.com/uploadfile/file///2021061919462562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/lorexawevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15403185215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/megeviwofuvafupapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98031604825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn-----6kcaheblih5ab0a6afqbzoqe.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/weroparodogabikewifov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f8c63afc610343ed8ebf81416dfd983/34177068801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/bekipupomimibidapanapipul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/wevugifuviwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealhca.com/admin/images/file/51428769281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079160f1029d---tajinulupeligida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82683108559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/58444328784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a34edc29fba3fb34ef4e70de7ec22682/85566334884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=free+software+to+convert+from+pdf+to+word+documentPDF 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_off0000c697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC697 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dea9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA9 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 32f4aadb0f447872da202ed977a0d197d4d21ed0765f9863b5e7c4e5028130d6
font_02_sfnt_off00010a36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A36 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 3a3f03a72eded04e35babd4550f081adade50eabefca8b1370116cfebbaf4050