Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ee6965ffe31aefa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-06-18 08:54:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 8bc8037c2b559d6debe598ccba0f6073 SHA-1: 92a380ed3b36c3c4997a91af7f5ef208487b6b63 SHA-256: 8ee6965ffe31aefaf399fdce3a28e1a63231a8346378b464a6fb5fe033bdd4fa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/dasamebagumakedenopeludeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1211ad48e---xuperusuziseximanepuduguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608825d399907---34377520107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/55782962138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/86720846100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b370f14b961---pujaduwuzekoxulevatib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/17953884283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakirkoytemsilcisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc90bd154d---22619996852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativenursery.net/home/creative/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dorefaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bi-acaovo.com/upload/files/notazusaliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a24b6757001f2769f709d5fd7458871/56659718927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7ffdec52518f4183f72d331f1d2c7f2/61251436849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091113be9182---nujofexuzetugavuxiriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/xupibeduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shihtzufurbabies.net/clients/d/d3/d383cf0c90cf2d2391705d5438694b4c/File/82360432351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=ssc+english+1st+paper+question+2018+pdf+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF7C 6260 bytes
SHA-256: c13694140ab6250538bb66f4c0513252f8633f14d71380ec49a96447dfe67d19
font_01_sfnt_off000104c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C8 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 20caa09ba6e16174d70c451a631a1db48300882af5d975324467e9ff7f5edb65
font_02_sfnt_off000125d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125D5 11096 bytes
SHA-256: fdc7a4810fc94ffa92398754dc4823162453893c566aaa75dd0f7b760180891c
font_03_sfnt_off00014be6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BE6 16144 bytes
SHA-256: c285fb7e0a468b536b5b50a218c3479f047524ad23ae0ce850d1b48518667c83