Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae8d5fbc00d1ee52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:18:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 7ab70a1c19ced90185f8375cedb54aea SHA-1: d6af32f367221404c73e73c059328f104aa3f77b SHA-256: ae8d5fbc00d1ee5284edf438879d306af37941e85458c7ef35d6216a10689cf1
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 0.9978

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=larry+wilmore+the+office PDF link annotation
    • http://broeinest.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pebejutivewedavatinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/48808523453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b54ebb1638---vuxowubabosedotanexuleza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/boxiweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/laburirosusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoybowlramenandpoke.com/uploads/files/sosimegowukupodupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kizkulesikizogrenciyurdu.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/83316487531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c926b47fa465ff6463bef525bd51448b/7879521258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab85357e377---ruxosiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826340b7e53---veredewugobebofekeputavif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/12979177454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0318110ff6---46562514091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hvdrc5b2o69p3lbe3qdht6vrn/kopodelujoxopizizoruxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/jumanelevuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/74676870206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b219777438c---rozetusunokukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161294ecb2b56c---58356826004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd726d088eeab8344c7616ce40972dcd/55842326719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/pekujakajusarotedula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongquangled.com/upload/files/23811043810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/75625488392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/30891259525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e83623a9f7---79893088448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kekioa0kbhlo8gb29h708q0dis/20037000159.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_off0000e27b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27B 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 7f71d5ce5ec3fdd71fcbf11ebfca7949d31c03e0e3bd921451350c81ff590c61
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA62 17348 bytes
SHA-256: cdaedd512e55573bae09d34f10c257253516eedb70a0c3848eeb947d92fe618c
font_02_sfnt_off0001277d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1277D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1