Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b0e134d5dbc539b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-06-20 23:44:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 91c705ac48d59ee67784d9362a233f04 SHA-1: 8db1d472c9e1005013e18a679c5bf1317eb855fb SHA-256: 8b0e134d5dbc539bd617c2123b3a871a355bdcb15643b36f576a53c922c19560
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9992

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=writing+phonological+rules PDF link annotation
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23eeru1vr1hfuscopndjrcgb3r/69950847238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/pizologabiporid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fc11a29326b57cd6f98c1f265bf3893/gemutixowixow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lohsclassof70.com/clients/3/31/31ca850ff086a58b81c8700e10a01852/File/36915069445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/327831a13f44f7d6f67e09cf9cf3f7cd/repatunudefalanakamikoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area5srl.it/file/fivepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f166ce7ccda2c179e9fc4caec86a6ea4/wenipiwumedalajewoxenuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-elektro.eu/archiv/file/sarazopot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b38104701e---zisoweritexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084110e4bfd9---40827437820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b643c2600---98889662866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ki65b0g0vcc33v6vrb319k638/fexetekepol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/sasibexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0def71742---munitizufad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3nmtqdrg935uj1ts667sbj9bi0/42343096313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In extracted file (font_01_sfnt_off0001032c.bin)
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn extracted file (font_01_sfnt_off0001032c.bin)
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In extracted file (font_04_sfnt_off00015a53.bin)
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn extracted file (font_01_sfnt_off0001032c.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn extracted file (font_03_sfnt_off00014526.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_03_sfnt_off00014526.bin)

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f908.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF908 2856 bytes
SHA-256: 4cc46a9a96bdb3500db132c6e1bde1086090107e8592a070ffff1b536b0362ea
font_01_sfnt_off0001032c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032C 5088 bytes
SHA-256: 2db508b22b821809fcc4164798599e8916c67ed2f0d748da05b550337df6de95
font_02_sfnt_off00011477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11477 14540 bytes
SHA-256: 439445462fb81d1c8be2ac821860ed7eb474d7543e6b00bf2e717a088ed77089
font_03_sfnt_off00014526.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14526 16196 bytes
SHA-256: e4005e78b715b8d4069915c48a6b21c6d1e9da4f75329ff8de598521b23de5c1
font_04_sfnt_off00015a53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A53 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176