Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ec174a2a2552ba8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-08-18 08:25:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: be81467cb423436be85b583af0c023ab SHA-1: 6371894d66efcf3cc3cc5a8433c485e054b4d5ac SHA-256: 8ec174a2a2552ba82f1cd6f9722d42e6abeaf1527ca9f9d0a622a70351e3ffb1
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 0.9987

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://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/56189664983.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/628673175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/23475648397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d591f2d0b8dd9a115607483c13a38bac/74029902493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intersonik.eu/upload/files/mikota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloemenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/4596723382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9c9361820a3e1f172ff75e2936e8aeb/94822988272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/ganedadodiponisiwuxatibab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/bufepube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjcopy.com/upload/files/zisavesejigukilitanex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/984c2515d45e25c6914f045b7f4d4710/tisijaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pedofaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharajohnscreek.com/sites/default/files/file/vuvuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8123192872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohouse-lab.com/userfiles/file/lemewurogivadowir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c36978d4f---kizazibebuvanironego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/89527950653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/62837184116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60dd464944---nebonenevozip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichibaninfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/japupixepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/gifilagadabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/19872168251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce8pu42ova17ski499gb85mifa/beladafagak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=que+tenemos+los+seres+humanos+que+nos+distingue+de+los+animalesPDF 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_off0000db28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB28 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 982a0023257809f84df6619e3fe685ed99be35ca1dce0f309987678187271ee7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f40e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF40E 17020 bytes
SHA-256: 1500e1e7379616c82b9b8462d9e0c9ee78d986d55c6fd120b2871be9f432b0da
font_02_sfnt_off00011e91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1