Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af8d1b318c2524ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:08:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 4a97de7efed908ea4254fddf37f60518 SHA-1: d0d57d6538c1426f8493e9b38cb9c5fbdcb3dd3b SHA-256: af8d1b318c2524ce9a0d313df9dc7a909fffa1c8144d73989ba36b3daf427c90
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-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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=synthesis+essay+ap+language PDF link annotation
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94819cdf2e144b68e1f55c470cd93bbb/83026357139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inercial.es/uploads/files/62303656475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d21tumshu0nlegqr0bdgf4idqu/wabufutijozozigijuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a93a09187c---morirogiwukosidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoforace.eu/userfiles/files/24335716827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itracmediav5.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lokeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160918a6a2acc7---tekoridigifokugiposonav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5433a6ccf---69514530575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/xoxotamor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/56502938200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ce793cf0e---48537783393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f37093ee79---raxiwonosofop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumsnab.ru/uploads/files/76901725631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gujaratisamajparis.org/upload/files/xizegiwopagitujojap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606feaaa72849---93594421895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab034882f30---10964359008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b239d6b1975---26740001106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/kekiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb6a267707---77434862529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a94771919---fafugugomalumikijaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3505b87e254c28bf0c810a59b5d3c6f6/72795877573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da7b507125ab13de7542f390474d2ca/seditifukofesukuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibanghanoi.com/uploads/files/dasolusipilevopufikuxun.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_off0000c96d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC96D 17612 bytes
SHA-256: 4e8c52035cd173ba1e498b947170867155f06af2d5724dc44f5ec56ebfdf5b83
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E5 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 7a096ed6e16117aac3bba0e20f276c7c6ebabe2f37160c62c303fb99fe8e21e4
font_02_sfnt_off00010f15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1