Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cab987290b320bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:21:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 466a7791e32028314e6c1e9a33b2d225 SHA-1: 11131591fd98db651c52043dfad81ea17a49a61f SHA-256: 8cab987290b320bfef4d9c7700786fc5e3026c248cfe64762390cf1750cf56aa
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 invoice-themed 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 0.9977

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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 http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841bca0eb8e---tetusilevevunotolovogifu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5s8j8pthhrlqhd0sc1v669kp62/vowiboruxojolobufozezuvux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a17f13922a---xugemewejovenibuxiwuzisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e6504e474de2540535516f3de9d110a/92973089245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/95238729978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hane.com/files/92994246112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7242f84919---sazakidususo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lulanul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnifha0aa5bkv04vf71m63jep5/57028251361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/diloxutuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjcopy.com/upload/files/64740585516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointvirgule.ca/upload/editor/file/37869289845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/20414761395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-ambroisie.com/ressource/site-image/files/fijodom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/19368690462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/vapet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0119936547604935203b180745c0e134/50754014384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3dc3907c79---dejizomoxufidavitel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/52593122429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/lisageno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/24452457443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/ledewufona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=csir+net+notification+december+2017+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off00010da8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA8 11248 bytes
SHA-256: c399905a14112dd23eb264fdea3f213c338b06500d9b0ff92d305cd31229bc7c
font_01_sfnt_off000127f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127F2 18464 bytes
SHA-256: f960976589e36bb5b0eaab39af1368999bc4e4509d5d13513a376290223214f4
font_02_sfnt_off00015835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15835 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1