Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8be51ed8bb809a76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:00:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: daa2f520c0acd68aba7263407d412175 SHA-1: a4f42707fe195bbba77add5ca080f2a3fe20edb5 SHA-256: 8be51ed8bb809a7638702e81b34c042924fbf9db86c5c6f76102faf0b7aae8b4
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 0.9981

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=general+objective+for+cv PDF link annotation
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/63167957060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/69054803999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/sovowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b10dbf3450503cc147cc9a25a2d82b84/xesatufesafopokadazufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.org/uploads/file/nejawakomolotesejiradin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hokeypokeychallenge.com/clients/7/77/77ac66e313b6cb4bf602f1678accca72/File/lorajobaviran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b21b3037cbb---97852856747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paroles-vives.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98794471112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc80300ab8a---21621544016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belhasasecurity.com/userfiles/file/mobijij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/gajobitogofurexin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toszegisuli.hu/userfiles/file/wotine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/sidosupaxudemiguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/952fb9e5b8d7d89a14a9e19552d9f969/noxiwipolabibumuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqc55lnud56g21flssaq49fvh1/matosotarubopesolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/jivotujamekawumudib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prospekt-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuzajagoneguzoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b0b2e4c043ba1711996367f3e7a7658/63877024221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210719_91D5E5CFE34F1535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/bidazunekewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ij7ri7mov2pmbk4frhacnmg6bo/funimadipir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondadejean.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lujuwugujikiwitizifipokiz.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_off0000e052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE052 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 0d98bf591ad41cd3f6efb0be00579724e8db0143b83f3e63f063a705dd94b760
font_01_sfnt_off0000f86c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF86C 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 60191e1464cedb393ca92c9d40097020ac5b292821b3b6cd7b5a8dba6f0020bd
font_02_sfnt_off0001262e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1262E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1