Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8fbeef54227f0f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-08-05 16:22:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: d74bd5f445a3374a674138a286d354a5 SHA-1: 81f9b54b6ccc5a5bc3edb55ff4677511f178202c SHA-256: a8fbeef54227f0f3d834f8587d277874fd0dbe2bfa90dad8466ec98cb445ab0c
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 0.9953

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 https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094023b33a75---nowelomifudumagapuwovafa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/dodirezoludavudogubetafox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab8f572954e3f45b3b255b367e32f50b/tatubusenizegorarud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqkgg8faidberocfuejkr32mv1/96913128824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/ludedefugugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ditanawamatawamewosegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/918d6dc16ac47f830914e98fc58b6bb0/lavasudizazusajar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dafangtour.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/vovinorizomubalugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f96fb179ed0---nereguzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulhb45mmuk8stoumgfotgmvaer/godolorivapofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/bavidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchiseharbor.com/files/files/lanixizikepezukeloxuxame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52347965934e32c9e52bb90f1bd47e52/dedukuxawunukujama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eprobatdz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6195693741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiriosrl.it/userfiles/files/94891530199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovubaxomonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/07/02/file/31998136170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/ribajozegabimugovomafemet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educationsexuelle-ecole.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rujotojelowusetobiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/31977534539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f982e91ecc08ecfd08e015fb45a058e/zujebojozolafuruxito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829a52e2688---gixaxifazarezidez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=yuri+kochiyama+on+japanese+internment+camps+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000c2c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2C9 16608 bytes
SHA-256: d3dc7a43bf7e7ca979d830374e46e0ebdc5158ecbde4eb0803985bd44dcc46a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE0E 11100 bytes
SHA-256: e20690cdcf27773f67af4587c00ffde27851e1feb2a8d08de27c7fd204ca6fb5
font_02_sfnt_off000107da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1