Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8c98a4b4547170f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-10-01 06:09:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 62b3c3b12f7c5827a692f0ab4ed33e16 SHA-1: 7922fc052fd7f1f09fbbf7e2e5a9afbfc6c60f06 SHA-256: a8c98a4b4547170f20dcf9dd806ed4256b42c6385ecbf968b5227784cc3b708c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a seemingly innocuous document to potentially malicious external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/75322885397.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dc064a84c8---57274862456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextlab-semi.com/files/fckeditor/file/kajefibibokijigugepekena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72f8e8146f6378555497dfb6ad0093a6/76251194695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warehousetraining.ie/images/22640456760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/dodosajedonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lotux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/19375805664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-mill.jp/images/file/3038673597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spartaksedlec.cz/spartaksedlec/userfiles/file/42357492740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consorzio-csa.it/userfiles/files/85174879031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30583b3ffd2070046555b8164bff94b9/98685561054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icnj.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64635442696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/xikofilukimalujotabamate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianartistic.com/userfiles/file/71475483922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/613fe4055ec90.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centonze-vini.com/userfiles/files/36490402929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravikulamnationalpark.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48978565115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gkia.org/kingkong/userfiles/files/tilijawemelojarotafidofes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/getitivifed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pagyesa.org/userfiles/file/20210908184611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/musibexenugubasexig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=normas+para+la+elaboracion+de+planos+pdfPDF 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_off0000b4ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4AC 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 936258ddba102c69a89af16a235741818c137aa10020899db2cd2ec7f0c62a70
font_01_sfnt_off0000e005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE005 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f81c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF81C 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 1435fa9e887e97962a7b1b5eecc73cbe3ee74ade7073037ac41ad051c4839aa6