Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d45b538a597afd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:12:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: e184b125eb49d871fbdeedefc408e471 SHA-1: e8440d3de54a7a0b6c725dcba3ee0fa3cd67e24b SHA-256: 8d45b538a597afd61bc541ea8ceec021df9e62e8d73968311c7652f8ef5c355a
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 0.9846

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d34d31f96a---93233496541.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://robertbah.si/files/file/55489857391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/38939074520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-olomouc.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97927962143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/25418473406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/62784089639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/niroxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b0060d066---lamana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/xegasuledukexesoguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhquan-group.com/upload/ck/files/25782451630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a8d72e6677935b489b3d87bba32bcb/zekak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9cce721bc---82157049111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://print-printonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xibuvad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autonoleggioassereto.com/file/jekedesabegesixumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biothiennam.com/media/ftp/file/verozagojap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/nusesup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipsphotographystudio.com/73842722289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p2726c7ule5qcl1mqor41me35q/notixukusupobofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/12223059898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v78utriv2i53ktf4auh4tsmtf0/22839588630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-8/20210508081220769764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pottoka.info/files/galeria/files/lomugapevalanumim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34548d570c4184fad294fe4f0c842436/togabipugirebovenojosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/32233424074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehideawayresortpattaya.com/userfiles/files/jigoxukimepugatopazasewon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/dagonobora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=static+electricity+physics+classroom+answers+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_off0000d467.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD467 11160 bytes
SHA-256: df2d78c094c31b4d6ff5a43b2d4cf73c3ee3e2b32c3aa3d581e59582360815f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE50 16184 bytes
SHA-256: 9e8142abc8c9a6a5c6959808f219cf9651187d245b7516b04d4276fe4ee02efc
font_02_sfnt_off00011830.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11830 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1