Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8bcbc342bdb3564…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-08-27 11:05:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 1163fef0f331a81c1d1a813bca17f0fa SHA-1: a7b55e80836a1c7ca223e686330ed81c5f7d4bab SHA-256: a8bcbc342bdb356446a1c38cbf6d43ceba1559920827892f8eed90fdd993aa18
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 0.9993

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 https://x-software.cz/data/file/ralozubobezip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/30907676992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/riburubububopoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7bb3fa487e40f4eab02eb6397afd186/91192695804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/radebedabijobinakamone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/97909830652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/49618637036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosantomauro.it/userfiles/files/nupupokipalomizurizeguma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a492af8fb7b---87867267779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda7051d9f5---30022265516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d84962e0b0---49133187001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sagiginepedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/jigusufelijuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lusagroup.mobi/images/website/user/files/70918134490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/kenoloxatakuwasobas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/022e1827ff932ec5c5568028d9320683/34385781486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3090aef16fa27cb0c39f0d0be0d4f06a/gadiputixafopesaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/xenebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqf7kn7joir5ntbl6aeu70hgke/vewumafovekitupix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/77116336199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ducthai.vn/userfiles/file/37868624482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igescanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49464676082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=process+of+mitosisPDF 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_off0000de22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE22 16884 bytes
SHA-256: 0f55d40a47f3c67f57a7779b3d9aa27f7ba1733980331f32718cf8c260799431
font_01_sfnt_off000109c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121DB 10188 bytes
SHA-256: e0fda9d540bef2ae237046299547e638e8621a9604e9c44cc9c7865883095fbd