Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 247fa23c8e2886d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 11:24:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8f4998b1ca26570183e1a6372afd71a2 SHA-1: f374ad49aae580ff75e1286c77015f806c583384 SHA-256: 247fa23c8e2886d79dfe6c8d0a15b04f361705faaeed3634cf5a051292e0fa9a
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 0.9922

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 https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20087dc0f17722c94ed8070cc23ce6d3/83447416376.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/48583605332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carnavaldemarbella.com/Senegal_5/Content/files/userfiles/file/terod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubecomments.com/ci/userfiles/files/xalerej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f97ba56129a6c4792617a3ca4477438d/wepixidepakikadenajor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be15745ef51---pademema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandlynxotic.com/clients/7/73/73cf6ae24f8ea70eb1cbac1dff6b0f9e/File/budamebudatewekodabokij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/xifinalebaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/koduwabowerulagolewopapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/zokudilagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608752f26a23f---89898612875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/20216231249187702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/80755508911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c937d6add1---57720977225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/57935651103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a90ed39379c---63537831385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f0de231da---ralulilalelonoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intrigantka.ru/images/userfiles/file/38885464966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7m5n2vgif4qks2nov9dtnrmcn0/25233750033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/debde60404dc76793a92abd9afb1ae01/59808174822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/xudasodabeneda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9700a8b24---wunonozuzoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099df6fe63b7---ruwasopopubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787dfe4cdc9---2417655997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/63762292127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=promissory+note+for+school+feesPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dcd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD0 16252 bytes
SHA-256: bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B1 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 90ca324d7f9548641aee66a7835a19f450f16fb660eccb750397d8b822d7b3d5
font_02_sfnt_off00010a91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A91 17320 bytes
SHA-256: c567c6dbbf21688d1d3520bcab9ab56d226ac4cec2e6d31493cdab8ca6687d12
font_03_sfnt_off00013837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13837 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1