Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8afd721065645089…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-08-10 16:59:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: c8dc2ef3f224fe6aaf7b4ffde4fb6c0e SHA-1: b6eaadbec06b58efa8877b983bb7f1b2f5e17a08 SHA-256: 8afd721065645089657e02afe54383ce9ead570997b2a3fce3e11ca5e5afff6d
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 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+import+ics+file+into+outlook+mac PDF link annotation
    • http://wfhs64coyotes.com/clients/b/bb/bbaa54d3a7800b2058c5658261a6771d/File/pulogisasato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/xilubufikovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/61538967440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/xazigimowazedesegogubegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--eyt274i.com/upload/files/wukofozefasuxugazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelschuurmans.nl/images/uploads/file/jadawerub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfacbb3a1e796d7e7af3f7f3abe3ab19/37167978199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulanceservice.pl/userfiles/file/33760230489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kujupifogetoduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd6a3984e86---98571993483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afcbda90e82---86161973430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/jekidazugosul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivllr4hblbi057r8rb402len03/49538246838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/98581779017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26ee049d80c6921c0f559405d1c43296/18737759197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/4953607296096283f3b083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4ps5vs7bbjeqse1h2bj440od4/19512617290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/92585125065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/xudozijifozigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myflora888.com/ck_files/files/65024284233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750f2003a47---55776622388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/totumuvozafoledep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gawwaclsc.com/app/webroot/upload/files/dozitetejojoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f14b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF14B 10908 bytes
SHA-256: d5d29ea61f847fafd11196c3bbe20c3299cae053c90182f695924e40e01d9479
font_01_sfnt_off00010a94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A94 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 20f33a2ff9a2691dc1a4177179acacc6b8e44ab2542a250c252399cfd1a029f9
font_02_sfnt_off000139fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1