Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dc66fdfdef1fc20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:21:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3f0e3134dd29c85d8314d5f2b17601e9 SHA-1: fc227dcdca3d7e2b816e8b6fadf036867d7379ca SHA-256: 8dc66fdfdef1fc20352d9f3138f605a95e14c9c7a02f92e7e552357f11c2c7d6
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. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://brno-skoleniridicu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27640571287.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c25045da820a8f03de677c4c7bdfb12/33039700025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/40289964036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourcechipola.com/files/public/91118276862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/750de013dbf253dd57833f229d2f691e/78574449286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3cba4546f---22562386761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valleypainclinic.org/userfiles/file/bedagogaxitawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jaecs08r05ms2bisji34usg558/pugesugitabisawupumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8ea157db76a3360546cbac8fbc2f30c/7431557460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reaga.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nogomakevegepebuxidever.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e24f82698974cd6dcc3f1aeea2e9711b/80755512636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/115a93ee2ba57fe17609181322599c3c/rofixute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad01289b08d2800d477aac9d0610d8d9/4215121319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210702173201402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourbuilding.ru/userfiles/files/zamuwebotafapamubijus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1a28adc50d---fumoputunomid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/98327284756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteplacard.com/UserFiles/file/73482292994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00a68ed1b5f9781e628545566d2648c5/85717516228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607542d64af2d---pumelonuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/okkbv7l48d95bsl3guutiolm5c/46046582955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca25c829fc---66519519253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dda58b6f06---xufogexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=derivatives+markets+third+edition+solutions+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_off0000b25f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB25F 15552 bytes
SHA-256: 4bad5082894fb10a32d8578e40640a0b9dd1c22b73dcc5990fad7b0a88141990
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8B6 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 801a8990f9b47ebe1c239adcaccb18cbfc03dda488e837a45ec77fc5df85bfc6
font_02_sfnt_off0000f231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF231 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1