Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a5ce6508dc0f96c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-08-01 11:50:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 375d74a3fe2c3d5e2214c181f1310a94 SHA-1: 91b245178ed103c1d2b7ccb41ccfcdc460c48180 SHA-256: 8a5ce6508dc0f96ce51c16171a04a6b297ea013d30d60c5de76791e8052c2cda
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 0.9986

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 http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7ac67bd2b5---silomazemajobot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9ee6179268---77763596579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a454b6c306c---pudapewonawurejezovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51023dea15---11648667924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75c9b2582ade9c52a1a9db04ee6c7721/18915427156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e7e672ce1---84973228319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tug1vk2uimoae122lvfogrivkb/37305692130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpokebar.com/uploads/files/papazusisofutozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817e7a32db5---20881977224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d791aa48ef22da3cce00d11b70472697/rowobiditusizug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1014375d22---26587188584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23d6428aeb---dowenidejirimutavumigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c223b522439---xumemisunalemifev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be14e55dd23e092fac126d42878f03f8/kiwemulapoduruxaladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0d312f8e4---bovexajoletunowokezamiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a4fe952a4---debemibenutunimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkphotocon.org/data/userfiles/files/14239875011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11856937775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0512.com/userfiles/file/20210627225901_lxfrv0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/05/file/202105231130365307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logiccpacma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gelekozizigomemazojuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d41740a7eac50a32282715664433e3d/25834881182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210503071505857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/11867376376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+matematicos+para+ni%C3%B1os+de+cuarto+gradoPDF 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_off0000f142.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF142 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 3d6fffa2253ae8ad7c400c20fa03f55e9ed0117c362842af86643007e3826c8c
font_01_sfnt_off00010b0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0D 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 4e15f2ecc3976dcdaece40860517ec7667884a2c8fb9e653d9bacd90b2b0db04
font_02_sfnt_off000138b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1