Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a5e29171f6acff2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-08-13 18:59:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 8854b76b7a0e5a2a339b5dc09acc1a4c SHA-1: afe71aa5f887164c8dbb5ffab6a72887a65fbc18 SHA-256: 8a5e29171f6acff2a3cf9bfc488cd04ff352869d8eba4791c5f3d172edd1702a
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 0.9937

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://xn--h1aaebajlcgx.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/badijivutova.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ddec0a1cb---joloxobanezifumexovojosid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/45613003076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvhsvq2sdsiku6qoo5vrlefil3/dorigeferugogonudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84711450537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/50512469091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/fusekakikakotazexamaxina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0dff5803d---99308658710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rjlf2al174h0ibfc739104jueo/gosuvunabemuwevek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhilegia.com/upload/files/57303517012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01qsmf4j4eetrnlugtlkjbt1j0/posibexenazala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdtrafficticketlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wuxopam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb06fcb6b6f---80822709598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6jb5eq5scp29c000olbh6j9ht/73615359795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/90950687105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/lazinotoxidugifokaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.latentoac.com/portal/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o52i6iqi17nuk3aq0ld6a5q65r/virebofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gobnitsh0piaak0bpp2ssrbk6e/javezoguxujumonodesidelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neonyazilim.com/images/Media/files/bavetagesux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608781189b850---48308610178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/473caalmj6rdlar59g1rf1t4e1/finafogezudorifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c79fee9bd2---40140348402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc9b1e8c64---50341574553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/mowelubezivibenefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/77290828617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/bewupomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/1338090330609eb82e8624a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=pals+2020+pdf+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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_off000117cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CD 19100 bytes
SHA-256: 8460e64d4a826e867d0049d428e7ab730e00220104d164f746da636eead91c8b
font_01_sfnt_off000148ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148ED 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 97dd1634a9032cfc24bd4a9db4dce522ce4a04a315a3a39d98fa8817863870ab
font_02_sfnt_off0001611a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1611A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1