Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c71b23c777e4fd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-31 13:00:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 84d00e5cb7df10bd5a0627348cda4a4e SHA-1: 5f358d97c1a8a0d48bb335ddb6a3a053eff73ac6 SHA-256: 8c71b23c777e4fd88e53b7f6af92f69eb60ee84e1c3596ae37bbae97049a3565
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 0.9986

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+take+photos+backup+from+iphone+to+mac PDF link annotation
    • https://bouwservicewinthagen.nl/userfiles/image/file/12309698538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/19148971960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075656a07473---pejozofadefiwotajokuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkuo5snl1he9eb2ep28eqr1i91/jutixexigotefemekegidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guyfamilyreunion.com/clients/41950/File/31613261453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/tufuluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9q7frg4ar9rtvjap3d0vimiv1/70368823312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d471b0d958c---logamaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clasesholandes.com/userfiles/file/satawanisalovawese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87ec801362---69169765601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1a223e73e---niteloxixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shh00lpjlm446in7e1ppg6b2u0/nimilokasulej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5fd827eba---38322800044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607025ae2dcd5---radupijiwekutokugilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75cc0b6106eb9449dc98aa6148c0b5cd/sapogifibuxabejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spharma.ua/files/file/jurawena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2bed4ac8fe---76306504496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23383226852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ec5ba4ae89d99da359eb779b80f46e9/33788140882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608175be8f754---jokororamuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/55149664081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5j5dpnn70tg8sde0d6d8qiksl6/zowevajawasune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kruengrangthai.com/files/files/kederazasalatezijun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verdantnorwich.com/clients/3/30/306756bb587dffcd11ca74610d845a16/File/lusawi.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_off0000f758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF758 17028 bytes
SHA-256: 33f4b50b9265850e51b2997afed8f860afd9b60b66f86970cc314d30fa8c9396
font_01_sfnt_off0001238f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1238F 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 97e56a49b1bc9337485e8c9d9f8eb38e3836a59c9f8d4d152c919356ae05716d
font_02_sfnt_off00013d24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1