Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 847a37bf7442c619…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-06-18 16:14:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 6fbb8eeb8e904c89db739b3be4103279 SHA-1: c27bce419d3b7a5338665ccbb2fa9fdcbb6c2f68 SHA-256: 847a37bf7442c61983cdfdc70f8d8f92588ad96244298fa0241d6d7d8de6a33e
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 0.9998

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://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4reaiorhlv9gceu9a5cu78q2p/konawobenixuwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/fafezevisazif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62b0477b7e---tademakiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74fa1662db36036ca07afc0dd99fe422/viwovovidivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be730141cd9b1e2b007a781053e1af0d/zizagadulug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/mejaxomakubajapupezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09502f0c3d---70908747379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/72838790892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7fccc443f2---22640061957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d0b22b512---basesowato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c806ad73b---16711358969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38vptnea3aqmnmneqf6fogsh0p/1633793837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4kakdnjdfhan1ik0mq0hfhm7t5/daredopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/pisuzapinerosikoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c91c7732fb---rifuwanumana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o0761l9inql9q5u4mbdm8dr7a0/jemiwusaridikozuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=now+we+are+free+pianoPDF 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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d348.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD348 4744 bytes
SHA-256: 1e63547b95e599b47801231d29741c321d394e232bb9bbdd7f8780c8a9fa6987
font_01_sfnt_off0000e398.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE398 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 16cbd4f0e4bfc284d6d8a77f3b27cc24d3f83a4b1e0f31ba65a34e4c5b407be6