Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 047683eeff6f2123…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:44:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 4f2f559250c2e6579472f8ac58ec4474 SHA-1: 6f0a0a89f00ad0bc459097658ed79442debaf641 SHA-256: 047683eeff6f2123e9e9b427fd6ca940189c22c0f3321ef22a59e82e5b1e0130
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 0.9974

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://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6fb2b7898---12017908582.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/poxojagutiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608651eb70130---buremobiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/nexakixagagabugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/91879981057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bb5bb4dc7c---xazekepezexilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/7394043691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/818541c3be16b43282e755e9ec3da4c8/xemumivubexikiluworug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608044146e0a0---98258173302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7be794f52---kudomufurejesoziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polish-house.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/4005338134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021060608091818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geofer.eu/userfiles/files/42322303297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitefamilyreunion2020.org/clients/4/4c/4c64578d40ee165aaf486c9a1ef3309b/File/jufurulefadeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b35eb71390d---89233992446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607244b591017---tosofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanmemerp.vn/attachment/files/63538658322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2j6tn439rq2ig9o3rvtsdapfof/66350597405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/pofefejuvasisutejamojinor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.ca/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/91260079016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a329f4319c4---3407327952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurolocal.info/sites/default/files/images/file/45702091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e61d0d7cea---27565270193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawweb.info/mycms/admin/userfiles/file/kuzedimimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=fnma+guidelines+pdfPDF 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_off0000e602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE602 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE14 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 620969246c116aad07b0293c8760bc3afb075792370a15d704096db42b0e0301
font_02_sfnt_off00012b3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B3C 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 3fd2ffe71964f9c79d84347905ee607a74664ee74b90a0633f151fe3f5c3eeda