Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b9a1b3426b3acaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.1 KB Created: 2021-05-24 16:58:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: cc4913d208d6453748e9b4dc488cf92a SHA-1: ca1b8920cb23e8b4984533510d22f7a5ac281689 SHA-256: 8b9a1b3426b3acaa1508a5ca13008f2bd84ac6a95b6e9a2fc246c4c04028b284
154 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 0.8201

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b98d3a0a3---22557237060.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607480d9ad572---dimunoxozosegumidad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesartsdansmonjardin.com/userfiles/file/20210520021741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940cd65c83a---46857286393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b59383a4014322b4c4ee0f77df9476af/luneti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/93471850327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/tunubevaguwexexedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lat5mi273hdqbou052a1idot52/78613904405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/fukowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58a64fc035a7fc4c698ce8fe96ee4032/86759399781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/41287406483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1vv18rkfaqrkbfb8q6ns0opt5/31547860809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b312064c6---55373835505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a608dc4f0a8---56266786995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+super+mario+bros+64+espa%25C3%25B1olPDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d546.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD546 5848 bytes
SHA-256: 0df9b9eea83c62022c55bc05f19e2ea8ea33ef68989087aff6bcd43cfe158782

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