Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df8a8f78e2d0f554…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-08-07 13:54:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fe16f5cd706168566d261926e78a8448 SHA-1: 3ccbd9d6d8be878c5a6ec5d82030e2152f134e69 SHA-256: df8a8f78e2d0f554ccc503d8fb74a1851d7586cf697718e396cb60b2efbba1c0
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 0.9984

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 http://thecargonepal.com/userfiles/file/desuvajadubarefusin.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://areawifi.com/DESARROLLO/userfiles/files/joranosugexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/46733828072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca19f081c2---mapawoxijetaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086aa7b2db53---dojixusoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44142bba5be5e0b974aa87f16296959a/53208522606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lahma.pl/_u/userfiles/file/fosegejavofudazuvolevoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40e0ff26715051aa5773bcbaafcdb8f5/gebesasixovijamagujubovix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gioiacompany.net/images/upload/file/81732157902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-hj.com/up_photo/file/toxoxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d94e819fe---rukezanijetumegovud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8e3f697bce---zakawilelalapudikelanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qualityitalia.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50352992526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/jepokiwowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c112ba310677e3813f3cdb80c8be3e44/45922331986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiercontractinginc.com/files/file/24253743488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bm-shower.com/userfiles/files/binigunixujegumikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/refomirejigarimor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/silug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5dc596c21---nunomononikisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f45bdca4e5---ranevuwikejasag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe3b72acb23---gisudigoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/lexevaduwagaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=v380+pro+downloadPDF 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_off0000ef38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF38 17028 bytes
SHA-256: 8e935213d91e3fa8b72ca192fae09cd5677106d217de7f165fbee5276a7b4361
font_01_sfnt_off00011b89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000133a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133A0 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 01ecfa242742e0729856df59d7bddeb9bb2fa51d58d9bf477bcadb68dec8701c