Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ec78f7bc04c5191…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-16 13:32:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 11f2181631efd32a70cf650f5693ecd8 SHA-1: 1c94852eb22bbe5d24d37da25f7a4ea446646adf SHA-256: 8ec78f7bc04c5191f2023542478c7701210f8fc065711cd22f4092b36655e78b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories on various domains. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e69c76693k3oo4m8ercek84k1/jajesimebab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e1fc820f3---30131310184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a261d2568---14397694163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/vanososesupukav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/wofase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maxifogofigizudolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a23b645ce2---70010900419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1aab29fd74---38838386639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-kutnahora.cz/gais/image/file/80353506090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susasoft.com/upload/userfiles/files/botavafezilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/86021194367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93e9673be7ce84d4c7f877cd012075b3/84250343135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copab.tn/216mag.svn/uploads/files/54679778774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1960.com/clients/1/17/17c242f0968dc4bce059666b43fbd075/File/ketodipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f867b2b62e24be678a007b6528d3c0e/teretajuvudifine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terryhaas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc58922cc8f3362fc544166d6b2bbaea/22300535435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f76fdda4bf7f8fd132d5ad77712e3eee/tifadabowutizupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsemilia.it/userfiles/files/23909796260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/nedibomujebefoxopoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607102ca13ce1---xudopimexesulabasirigerit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a496194eec1---99840757605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077336d543ca---95033522535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=parks+and+recreation+halloweenPDF 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_off0000eb8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8B 17240 bytes
SHA-256: e3abad59bb2aace7da5a71e7d5501abfc6363736bc5d673f807771a662803d2d
font_01_sfnt_off00011794.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11794 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012fab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FAB 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 60fdd416097da701b370d6e543a4748394bb93065aa3b010aa659ebc2de77983