Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8b32c854cc5df5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:10:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 61636f0dc30a735f77401ff0a42484b5 SHA-1: c2e42e4455ed61c41a4e3059aa059876212e9259 SHA-256: e8b32c854cc5df5c3488d4199327409269f4df226ed1ba1151bd14814596f849
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 0.9979

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=afasia+global+adalah+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/543f91398bf8ca14fbbefead23dc0689/wijinufitatobon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b68d6d3cc3---gavubeximoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/jubem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/60017506467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lasallelille.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98530005104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepankarbasu.com/FCKeditor/file/48293053468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607201c085d05---46956119071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086884105db9---vinelabipiruven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f87b6773f50b3fee79e252a19aefa23/20391875182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hr-serdahel.hu/images/file/bufoxavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1b1e9ea9bb---47806167550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c88483319a797094dca8273e2d9ca2da/zifugedepizimomegikazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.me/upload/file/41814212565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/titafafotaxiwidadanofifug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/gefoxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879e1fd18c8---taxuroranikor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xistenze.com/files/files/92603523134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/46079441975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilyxrace.com/userfiles/files/tejosuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a1ec8fae5---284473220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingtassinari.eu/userfiles/files/webito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755cd9b0602---76108313852.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_off0000f24e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF24E 10464 bytes
SHA-256: ab77bbde0db3d70cad4c1e07697d1028f3b4020c3473be818d8ba63749e0e7dc
font_01_sfnt_off000109ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109AE 19188 bytes
SHA-256: 7a460c6256155c0a32358cdd8c8906d8d00e15a3623fb96c63e2abeb4ffbce2d
font_02_sfnt_off00013bed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1