Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c47f16b83e3de595…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: b8f1ce06b5031571f6d242fe58a164ce SHA-1: a433e77b3468b6bf7c6a768af43be48456084abd SHA-256: c47f16b83e3de595ab94fd3e0193122896f140882536c3977ea5b3acf4605bc1
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-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 http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2a30721e9---mitesujevebomebusip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://biswasi.com/userfiles/files/wokikumokixewofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4f642a34c0711441e20da107c6ed000/poxewolidowemuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firstpages.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/ziwusomeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designpavelzapletal.cz/files/file/vijisoxadamifozijomavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4e1854d86---bewuxevofedupowade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99ae37a10471d11f5a19019dc0f4db16/dowuvavibofefipurixefija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/26997175423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/tisin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contactfm.be/userfiles/files/99730223059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/7555785135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081060b9425a---89536127359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f85068992be6f401cf65a6aeedb4039/piguzakurimofotoneguwiset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/zotosidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9423969fb8c8abfc33bf80c01d9d5061/35387690091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cce56a3b90---67869754945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-nails.pl/Upload/file/vadezuwodajadarupuwadavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archbot.pl/files/file/33750569685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/somawobugorexojuzupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607282474ea7e---89796043297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/file/memubururofurepafejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actlogistic.vn/upload/editor/files/31637799865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karolinanowak.com/userfiles/file/65202533285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=barron%27s+toeic+practice+exams+3rd+edition+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_off0000c88a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC88A 11096 bytes
SHA-256: bf0effb40973aed93eb508db1e7e2222a16c6acc4fb791f62c0fcc8a20df1be8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE286 20896 bytes
SHA-256: 8330e319cf488009108a3d6331c07723be101a979d3425913e1197a642d2ae94
font_02_sfnt_off0001194a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1194A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1