Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ab9e972f2d01003…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-07-27 23:00:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: caeb9b2a76829f011466f0e976a4f438 SHA-1: de31233cd6c81db3e22007c885ea921925171b2d SHA-256: 8ab9e972f2d01003b1bb529e8b818db0e28190e7169912a076a32e4680d83d31
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 0.9987

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://eccdc.org/application/webroot/userfiles/file/80689799163.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a73084de6---pozakonajeturikezedavoxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/85070770506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa50d8e4ab1---12792589013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbcehyodmtf1czh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/43118259868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rq66o42bfpkfl902dp3iljcqo6/83342142701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sleuo8r534ctfrio4vtd29cp14/28947429895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdcf2690ae7---55528424576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/kanizosasigofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d16bf8dc4ab4897e50322e7a5e2cc46/31429898341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namuvaldymas.lt/userfiles/file/97232448703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1j0ollvc3ce18fmh38aje16ujb/83434189791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/99366626551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirsanov-maslo.ru/uploads/33634296649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwhs79.com/clients/867100/File/48042506558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/pevasujubedabuludoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tagiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adcbbai1bezln.xn--p1ai/content/File/77315572222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhodium.vn/uploads/news_file/gefabunovexunenojoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09cf7e6750---78751652437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/67223292316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0467691562dfa8c6b9164e1ac949e64/17607921527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhoptik.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91415311786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=multiplying+and+dividing+fractions+worksheets+and+answersPDF 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_off0000cb20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB20 16748 bytes
SHA-256: 645a280edd41430ec8a4bb0998da60d3acb1097d3902c6aa85e8ef53facb1f27
font_01_sfnt_off0000f674.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF674 11348 bytes
SHA-256: a086b89fd27b988826ece77b18aa4f64ad71553303d954846b3e546268cc9a51
font_02_sfnt_off00011109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11109 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1