Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8f795d5f65628d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-21 15:56:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 031bac7499a7624440c6da6566e38f41 SHA-1: ed16df6df91d1978d45b0e4271f6d30eb8669967 SHA-256: e8f795d5f65628d16ce7a967e2beab4d3b7ab6a1f21d65ca5faa7d883409f821
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-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://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ac244cb96---38970941273.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d92180fcd---kedepoxolawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/1063385562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088444acd00b---gubuwuxopegulubugara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/79970211510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/49117238932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmc21.com/ckupload/files/26635470041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96e3566a1b---sozadaramituronixevigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopron.ru/upload/files/95652685679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/josagavuvofoworogagugoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7pcf0i336s6j9b8ch4ha1qr03c/kefekixomuvejake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e6f0e5958feb4cd90bb39f881c157af/8192304049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856e10be8fa---norovobase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/12949724078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944aa6a30bd---19484245179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/54318340660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ripping+cds+to+mp3PDF 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_off0000f697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF697 4896 bytes
SHA-256: 2f1d4812c569200a8bdc56a59d8cc4abf90228361d7b0aec0c5d819f5d7240bf
font_01_sfnt_off0001072c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1072C 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 3e327a9f74871f91c36ce169c888f505cd585afc9441c3041a0fd4280899367f
font_02_sfnt_off00012b93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B93 16096 bytes
SHA-256: 3a87a2a80cb0740ff7ad33dbd9b35031d90241dfccc5ab96a3d2c3133af9c3ca
font_03_sfnt_off0001405d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1405D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c