Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d99e185f9ad720a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-06-10 09:20:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 09e1408cdb225e6122bb36a8287e9f43 SHA-1: 8f7a7457f14f027880494f908e11ad2aafdc4462 SHA-256: 8d99e185f9ad720a2792a1bc6c6b4168ac4bba286676b6def3521a23f9075265
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9996

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tere+bin+nahi+jeena+mar+jana+dholna+singer PDF link annotation
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878e82374e2---69718446081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pte5scnuivqvgcmnsouq48ml4f/42426155744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e5cda3694d7a581d1bd751ee3d881ca/barusenivujogazaten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de33d89a3f---27629990963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1e7b19edd6---poduwulaxugapasuziwoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5cfa93733598d7831906ee90c630f57/wonopobiraxojogorobasufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/639c5f192f8f37c95d6ad34ab7619838/97118192752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/23184332016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd989c20833---53792251841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c469da092---21122214805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rr864ncbn5qhvlvceo5le4s3s4/sigobagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3153e88d4d---81795147097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b451864c5e6---98614883019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/wufezolonifogalif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf1347f03ae---niram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/sejigigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f79c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF79C 5404 bytes
SHA-256: e9558153acd3ddb02c151ad1c0f0d606134047b969a73bb9af030f7c7ab1043b
font_01_sfnt_off000109d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D0 10636 bytes
SHA-256: a72d36a678604fb7689f343e4aa3e10c1158c85829c956c4e207e531e2b4e9b7
font_02_sfnt_off00012e41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E41 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 764fe263e68fd20aff2bbd96e69f5a400d440299d02096befa162391f913c7cf
font_03_sfnt_off0001437f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1437F 10388 bytes
SHA-256: c056a67cf9e5bdc6e165242100544b549c5bdceef4d19456acc9c4e7215703c8