Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8acc0909ba7a1d3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:53:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 8e3e38a025274c28013279c6518e1313 SHA-1: 9172d8b11d996e3b30f5dec9e54fd1f6c49f9e3e SHA-256: 8acc0909ba7a1d3ad7e48bb3154ab17ec56569eb7149c9acbcf600e913e8a163
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 0.9947

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://10kshot.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24804402948.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ed2ddd0622---zozoxumikekefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicamanila.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6641685725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb3da89f0a---libumobuxenajusefisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ytdrive.com/CKEdit/upload/files/dexaxabidijupedanasedil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://florylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/1183079350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c5e1831ad---97157410874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/63950448466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c490837b8a---48993031204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d4bf0d8d0---16536573799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607289b540490---8245940295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j288r2dh3ug9qe2ft3o6u3d3f2/92902456761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.net/userfiles/file/62324816111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riwg.in/userfiles/file/vomunenulasabefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h0ao717v3atjs4vaetpmohudij/xupiribikijizuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/257vr9ig7hmo7qirtro9mlgrou/pigadozozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pactforfamilies.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liponoxatawisuwiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/67062987666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090142264c18---kodiriveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosantomauro.it/userfiles/files/tiviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jonowagenamatesirekuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd9f7dfff0512ff5c04d5165b7e79f0c/medesedatekibimiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/64630062285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flixgolf.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87653329791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjncmkh1nktu3vml6a4lqcm4ch/ziwaseven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=reading+comprehension+worksheets+b1+pdfPDF 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_off0000c0c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0C6 11436 bytes
SHA-256: 78c75ecb514f5099ee4d2cdb6b7693d19e1d749a87770c9206e5f1fe92855170
font_01_sfnt_off0000db39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB39 17300 bytes
SHA-256: c3975162ae26586931be3ddebbc858afb1825d1635e71fd00390bd8ade54d0f2
font_02_sfnt_off0001077a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1077A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1