Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8093b28f9f84dc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:51:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bb4d91e2d2bfeb06bce085af6085ce29 SHA-1: 902c60a1e4393416f520bf094b876994be8dbc9d SHA-256: c8093b28f9f84dc50c1c4f798551807ff87a34e06be8ced1a885b287822d7ae7
164 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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://zkmeiqi.com/admin/ckfinder/upfile/files/19403072292.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/22709897387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lndt6r5vb8ibg3ast66sh7e1l6/43322056142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwaywest1974.com/clients/861606/File/49087848036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/16996853125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102b0412835b---70269815521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plymouth-logs.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26831902933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/80308767973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ov37167tni5o55i0bhs6lja16p/bogupedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santiagoporter.com/js/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/72510307198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fowedekilafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46448ba9a8631002f04e71192612a7c1/xugepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jemlcucpj6hia21qjpuo8p1q56/bevuvovekemozekubetij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da65fd02e56a0b8efbc8f7186375b7c1/paviziwodubatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ae86e47bcf8aff458e58d244412ff36/zematexin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610869a2c1bef---97510080891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897da5226ca---12050732536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xedulichhaiphong.vn/images/news/files/42661853041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/rubugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0f09b1e96d---8346705847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfff003b00---37451731742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q90e080a8aqqj5mvgak954o2c6/xitadipixeponomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/fixefuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalmediasolutions.ae/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59920806923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peeweeslearningcenter.org/clients/5/54/545fcf94abc6bccf175f3035c740e6d3/File/30413474095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+keep+boat+engine+from+freezingPDF 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_off0000db23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB23 16188 bytes
SHA-256: eee570cb777c4ae335544deb573af07905bf76a84edc9ce84af0609c6efba93c
font_01_sfnt_off000104e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CFF 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 8a5a2f5d5cf97d9ef396f0b99bc8e322ba9286bf51ef80def6eac79c3b15a74b