Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e85eb214bee040f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-08-02 04:51:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 2b1e1697634f8094a2bd43d4e41ebdaa SHA-1: 6717c5107a79717d1364344e606bbfaebb54a3b9 SHA-256: 8e85eb214bee040f0bda65d58304014afcf5f3896c30ca02481ad3037d51a0fc
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 0.9989

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+sculpt+blender PDF link annotation
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7q7cggq0npd6ioc7k1tuu9t7c0/92913637883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077dd962dd7f---3163419364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/goroxivoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/gatefomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a542473abf0df8239116cd0f9759b708/27530074539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pooq-design.com/app/webroot/fckfiles/file/36946354579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adaf61703e3---tomobidutibabixesineweje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/29791753684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuestag.ch/userfiles/files/79926341071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vresponse.net/userfiles/file/lamuzimakafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5bf4227f82b145232f0588294f7ddb4/53420412916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/48667247411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/moniteborebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruhmann-elektrotechnik.at/73659623433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/70942231849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/76520641793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsi.coop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fae92e1ea1f377f2be45b172696db6ad/27470944590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cccf72ed477---11291197111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usdcp.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/zipepelukopekerosoretiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18l25ou39m1u1ss9abbp1v9n35/69755695769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c061ab8e8f0---nimevulefejuwiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5b4a5bd4e7d3be6fc1166b009488ee6/mizibenidalilutupatu.pdfIn 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://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_off00011c7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C7F 10572 bytes
SHA-256: fddbfd36d4c5ce93fd6552441a1df1a66da865f4f34a4eecf2a31e17d443184c
font_01_sfnt_off00013490.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13490 17504 bytes
SHA-256: 7efd68311924e2871f9a03a1c537ffa46677146edfcded908123f7ae378418ac
font_02_sfnt_off00016242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16242 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1