Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa0eb77424380422…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.5 KB Created: 2021-06-24 13:01:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: d50a4473bcf02fda2198945095d70734 SHA-1: d9543c1ad6cd10ab5ca2b8e3228ece9b79946c61 SHA-256: fa0eb7742438042281a65210bd0986e1c24960dc26947092c686646bf378b059
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 0.9996

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://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/makewiberexaxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhribne8bnlbi0rpl19a8e1qkt/kabosotedabike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/xitisabesigixezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://driftwoodcc.com/userfiles/files/30956567506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/95153618488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bruisedreedfoundation.org/clients/4/4d/4d9d7eec3bf3a09fa0457ace138f6a4e/File/65786810207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e081cdd56c---79557191521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17d0a8c4f770f54d56483944f3d5f3ac/kejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/tekajijimokosakuvema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/merolevovubim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c2ae635d1---ragujazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfac996bbbc---35544665634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/vupariju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608229bfd2c6d---nivuvijugegavoz.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/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=descriptive+english+sp+bakshi+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b43e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB43E 5680 bytes
SHA-256: a022cf91a8160902f2316e588446e8bcb8fdc70774c3dbda967629c3fed5d534
font_01_sfnt_off0000c792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC792 9860 bytes
SHA-256: 7175de77d7cea623f25c7d026f5ee961f3dfae7abe99eacf662475e28bf93809