Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf8ad584451ebc72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-05-30 02:50:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 23840a66ade0796083d93ce7a676500c SHA-1: 7523f86e62c989e977e5fbe8d33d16bbe02b42c6 SHA-256: bf8ad584451ebc729fc67c91b5250ab38c6071ce62ac2ea29119bc3b28a5eec1
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 0.9996

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://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73baeaef423047f3e19239c937744a77/31248185052.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086978d3c600---vibugonumenorakatimat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/vudarekebekivugunanotimon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/38786214011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c9dd5f3ec---pakokosibatesejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/dikavasudufexojubudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6l7innk5tj6ohujvm9uatpbv77/xunalegedutopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa76858765---40666521802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03608883bbf6e51303c574b30fb22114/51083198321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e83ea03a81---97777755876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942ffc47453---faxakijisivepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8f31a4713---pukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e82684d48---vanodemixejapebisawuvele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac997184eff1f580286e48ae539500b4/pojixosiretekeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074811e2bcff---4820820184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3b879872d---87509755236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099677c0e1c2---juxelanutidegulonegev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=speaker+volume+booster+apkPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9DD 5332 bytes
SHA-256: e9430a083e7326e97f689a9ebf2dbecc18d09e8567a4cc1b30f23580fbeccc25
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE4 3872 bytes
SHA-256: 99ba7d849f909426373491156eb50ac3cb30c217e55db1e52a81cd6e12aa8e7b
font_02_sfnt_off0000faf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAF1 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 2c09cfb3bdc17c4114a6a7b7d1267200e8e35b7318e77e759f59153eefdfe106
font_03_sfnt_off000121a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A0 16448 bytes
SHA-256: 346819caa23ee5c3f3ab75b6d0490867c53244e3f6da95565789481d30091021