Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bf51025fce98ee2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:01:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 403f3296ce1eb727c398b68de7697757 SHA-1: 77368004d375eaefb98f5ab8c6a8000edf41e8d1 SHA-256: 8bf51025fce98ee2189339aad7883ea3115ea49ddc4f1c97a2ae9f2624f3376f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an urgency-based lure. 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 0.9982

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spinal+cord+injury+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/95062621550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/66717340177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarant0g3l-turbo-h1t.com/contents//files/45035397802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.fr/img/Data/file/gowipajefoloporojatojina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e88514ebc0---52409628706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/17188713968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.info/contents//files/lokusawewivedozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c7ee0fc21---9908026658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4b94263d7f---dosikitiketuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210728_B434FA8B0FDD1B0E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa84c88ed4207f86e2f018014d40d30b/97381405643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n7o2948gk0qkg2gvfnspn0auu5/91116141450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/wataritop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movietek.vn/hinh-anh/files/77901829843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/1929584558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.com/upload/files/89649693968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/sunoludizub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9d2011ad629882db2d521ffc32e6763/26910000786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumusjitu.com/contents/files/kigojamasodizuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conhantaoankhanh.com/webroot/img/files/sosofigejebimupakikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0su5ncmujovjhldofpcjk1u6t/96745041356.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_off0000facb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACB 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 2bcca524e242b602e25ea19a7597db667fad39057fff94ded7f88af9045386b7
font_01_sfnt_off000113ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113BA 20380 bytes
SHA-256: 760e804b15cb120f3f4d5a5ab5fe9664df912a24671b926bbdc5f67043a89fa2
font_02_sfnt_off0001482d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1482D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1