Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7faa4a1cc3059190…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:09:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 078a7b1abc7d6377f78851cb378ef891 SHA-1: 17c6ff8f0ce812b2a227b375937da4c3ea8d091b SHA-256: 7faa4a1cc30591905355388955d255dd73bf56bc2de57f15f294e99d793e2c5f
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 0.9977

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fables+the+wolf+among+us+comic+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/88762166345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae325d3aef0---voranavupeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0103592001621912032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/xevimawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbb6ahq3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vakipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1621686707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/90639758610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/11705082664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.pro/images/hand_uploaded/files/minulibosodinigedovufik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumnerclassof1976.com/clients/4/49/49b54eafcc86ae0c30eb104ab8b91c7c/File/rolab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaellopezehijo.com/upload/files/46768520483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20530d23f6---dajov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shipnhanh247.vn/asset/files/rubal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ratv3kn18e7f8vh71cofib75ta/dusedokeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-souz.com/userfiles/file/fagunugobuxoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.videocopilot.net/assets/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fawazujiwujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adgroup.co/userfiles/file/85304744934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabrikangka.com/contents//files/81734438224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgpropertylawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b3e58ef5fa2bb0a4c17092d6ffaf84d/lanowuliwofidazifubal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://powercleanperu.com/cms_powerclean_2015/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/85089338219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09v9ukneuv8g6ts6mamokd99gd/54864118411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b44bb23841---16537142854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/pagekesopal.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_off0000d3f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3F2 11268 bytes
SHA-256: df76a51efdf08d0844128dcfbf7810a2dc9f8500c5fc3589b42a91c3950a7994
font_01_sfnt_off0000ede7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE7 17540 bytes
SHA-256: b2f48aa8e4a1a8b66c9ef4ef82deae5af048e1f1f90b8f999c622d47f120e115
font_02_sfnt_off00011aa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AA1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1