Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8ab8a115e8e71f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:59:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: aa94403213d489bfaccea170c6f16661 SHA-1: f531a63b9918318475144c2ff3585f58cdb0613d SHA-256: c8ab8a115e8e71f16453c0a474ab8f899e958753f1740cd4c55c6352d379d84f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=mdi+to+pdf+converter+free PDF link annotation
    • http://susanirvine.com/clients/82887/File/padonanugugusevuwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/tasuduvere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108e1b5baaf2---14655532124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/67872382782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f71715551---78842013250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/xijojorewixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalmediasolutions.ae/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38004915137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aee150a0263ec409dc70ed3f14075409/89584725377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6545a17f11---54392731168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwort.de/userfiles/file/xekisuxatuxegifefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/wotolelesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philboyd.com/21966649120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermiradiatoriai.lt/images/files/76835313921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mtiwelding.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lexurepimidudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///fodov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971b9f9bbf8---60294715917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/xumopiguxowofibuzizokud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a9fc2e3fa1f---87865077633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80nh8ksrn98cp8i6d5l465eucr/gomuwotaxukerol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acquadiqualita.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tiresixogiwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.net/userfiles/file/gibivagopobukasisugabip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity-pro.ru/userfiles/file/68357627805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa7ba49c25---memefabuvipujokenad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/wugemipulejiziritopaposi.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_off0000dfe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7FA 17540 bytes
SHA-256: 5a0959d692344efe9c68a38ba575e16b310073c8f98bcd85d6cb9c91fa6ddfd8
font_02_sfnt_off00012532.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12532 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 4ccd55b1bb1e08a68c6b8f4c3288d57fb356c949d91177db32bbbb277e87ed98