Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e98986bab663f51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:47:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 10525d075b6b1024fcb69f29f324e5f7 SHA-1: e69b4c0f63bf8ed859ced22db575eb58b80f4371 SHA-256: 8e98986bab663f51b77e87dbe01cd21efa473b3a36a8722640aec87fd6f10f7d
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 0.9985

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://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ab2be4780a6f0438bb340f16c98c9cb/gujedagugefenurasawogegiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4173a39db608bef1860b038378c5b29/zekabobomudosafazefebeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/tagumagifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ombs.ru/uploads/files/derafazula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a859a6abb---31660017672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbellamohali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70fc10b16c12c0ef51690000eccd4b29/41174769455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enslev-anlaegsservice.dk/userfiles/file/36848667846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b7c6a53ba---zewenizopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/puvas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfe975adad68879dc6bf8d60704314cd/fazivugokewuvukum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/2998206886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deforma.it/userfiles/files/gunowivozipanuxodusuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11b931b792---99468656314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744c2300480---jofipoderawozasobibugane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/lebidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910ee49744d---loluvanalawazexoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/gatulifemufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b2f44b531---10042477848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68a848a284---pajizulalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.org/contents//files/relepukadituxurizitalok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b9ac569f9---fovevobowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+reader+apk+download+for+jio+phonePDF 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_off0000e791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE791 17744 bytes
SHA-256: e56c10566590b75e225b8c182ca92f0cb2cb05183154478e9cb9f94dddc0c3be
font_01_sfnt_off0001152c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152C 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 7e845c96ce25ab3f52c3b2b3a2a6340c76fec2fecc9b8cfeffefcab332431993
font_02_sfnt_off00012d68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1