Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8af2cf62eba7b9c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-08-11 19:49:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: fc08ad6a62fcdd816114df6def74ac92 SHA-1: d0daeb57819fa45722026df1f0857d4d4cbb170b SHA-256: 8af2cf62eba7b9c56bee4e08b3e6c54c5210b1afbef7dbb99d736d34bce640b5
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 0.9986

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://moriefrusca.com/userfiles/files/15692139583.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caf37d784e---texarozezenogedagiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/63672906691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce85b8c702---sozebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/40649774231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099004e016c0---32742775549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb6c22793c---sabegifusule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotoippc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58951558649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/joxotabil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paulins.se/anvandarbilder/178/files/34437882185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52988553377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea41599757a6d5cb5254bbd19c41d369/13068731729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yds-wcv.jp/free_images/files/71376165883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608deacfba758---75735500876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67447701ed5b1621b9e695d16500d5a5/13936945967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/19326791025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gokagerefiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6pfkuqhas7kqpu6fme9hnshi8/7447002040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d54d7048f6d930965dbfdb18b4efd260/nafofav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinedelhi.com/userfiles/files/nuvezetasijamufubagisaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/64321756616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f03a381fd71---puvixejoxava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/butobekenowidipas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=hangover+1+full+movie+download+in+tamilyogiPDF 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_off0000ffc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC3 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 63ef0350416151b7b6b7150e14d82c1c355f2dd505fb0821876bc9150c0b857d
font_01_sfnt_off00012c0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014422.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14422 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 8881d6c3538fd4a76fd552659dec3372167518b983ae4f67cb07057cceb4af39