Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ff42d68f666f193…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:08:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 2901137e4fa5d8ba16e1c25d91b8ecc5 SHA-1: 95786546d12b180c5c04220e5be8704c7f71c596 SHA-256: 8ff42d68f666f1937f5e30c67daedfb2bf549d5a66e352f6485c465704e9091c
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 0.9951

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=solid+mensuration+pdf+book PDF link annotation
    • https://alaqart.atelierleuthold.ch/userfiles/files/babex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/23913166492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gymlesgeants.com/upload/editor/file/95556229769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alaskaproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/nonoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36610720625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/94409312059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatiyabhashaparishad.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dawanunal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/tagemopibabolabokilepivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isleford.com/filespath/files/20210908021031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/66381264414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131098b40bc5---55496422779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nistd.in/userfiles/file/motavajorefiviwitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c7e84401e---labekilugepowevigifojilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/5394317640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c20tu5rmtploi5kmiuq363mrra/kupox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolegium.inaheart.org/upload/files/tepomofekejagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/76992368696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenfontaene.de/idata/47379516221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vendsol.com/userfiles/file/68413030103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zapaperilowafusepoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlssj.com/qianzi/upfile/case_editor/file/69553727706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dawahcity.com/userfiles/file/gebovabewiziwomaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://excellencetogether.com/img/files/file/fiwukimumojopivezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aragonemprendedor.com/userfiles/files/77668070387.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_off0000b825.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB825 17444 bytes
SHA-256: b24566844c857177af769ea1c3d017cc3cc92fa4352dd8fb8c7e917257495aac
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A6 11064 bytes
SHA-256: dd2ea2b76ad5359f09505631224221eea7ab0de850504a8ad449786990b150ec
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1