Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8febc1b0bf0740f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB Created: 2021-06-14 19:04:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 6647a93920f2c00b6c4e789619760e5e SHA-1: e5825cc28f5f69003eed22176d7a879953fb1ffa SHA-256: b8febc1b0bf0740f6c1dacea8b6073aa84c93a439b52b82a7824144a3e9c5114
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9997

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2015+ap+statistics+free+response PDF link annotation
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d85a9ca1c51f8f31c0d1041211c250f5/69566000175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc1199a9af---suluvoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825c947f2fd---51220895743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01c010c56575a3beef8a54987ca4863a/kujevetotakimikoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russia-ex.com/49879379782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradleyhillsapartments.com/demo/uploads/contents/file/57158972254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bt2763hndu89g5380cqmupbi97/63010180545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890e584e33b---27958161110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5tu11bgngdf3jkgsqshq2duoj/92757575575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9191be094da93e7cfa86f2f63159b342/83147396162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a2ev30mop59ena53jat8gajcv/92554034421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/wolivujiladivanafoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c4ca5b836f79f939f3a4b0131f08174/8702715799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/xavanagidozexesowiguleroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/66718586793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000137b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137B0 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 888a27501324a197e553a0f7068faf4245a94d7dc310d3d3fe797f215c3be36c
font_01_sfnt_off00014912.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14912 12364 bytes
SHA-256: d6fd294e1d4394ff10d8b36566b80c2ccbd8463055057e3c44b59a7edcc88281
font_02_sfnt_off00017314.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17314 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378