Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e5b4041ea99cda9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-08-06 06:48:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 0167df201caa90e5c39f77e0892c0b94 SHA-1: 19fad7172227c5bf6acf86fb98a5209417d664cc SHA-256: 8e5b4041ea99cda9768600782b9ca667943f8426535ff769757a8a070b1a4109
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 0.9990

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://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2eb6b75cd71e2303d85273d0bc66d7f/5323804854.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kronikarp.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25158405338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tntnbofgitk5qr7irecu3979ii/telugusobomenelozewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10400ba8aa75a39b6aba587a982fed13/safuwesovifomowejipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ptg0lbh7m1631q8922ehsapbs/wodurulowejalabaxenusulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/dupinadipenikivadavokodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwest1980.com/clients/9/9b/9b13e9c1eb96aaf026ead536bb80a376/File/pivuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/vafojagibijazimiwitubezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodfortune.hk/UpLoadFile/file///19418074507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/74321309268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/86550186193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroinstytut.pl/galeria/file/bomupiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/39818258573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4c66c0166---56637564383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bad2d8e28da---gitisavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///84177489733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/kuxepazowogenedekodum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28ceb22e282d67d319d4780b96263c69/dunavibowodomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608341842d4c6---89250015407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab88eda0f8a---9822932233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71fa5e3d883402ae864743ff153bb247/92721873937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/39523053548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/dijakoxokarenipukajowadap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sporyolu.com/resimler/files/zojonetedikobop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+is+a+flt+coursePDF 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_off0000eec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC9 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 5d6651f3f4391357f50735a3a8da0a6c3b93e9026f00d5eabc9a11ff8d37ea18
font_01_sfnt_off00011c1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C1D 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 912127467377b86f4b4d95938d7e529be1e3a9f8ad607ca39c0ae4870a96f6d5
font_02_sfnt_off000134a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1