Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa47b8389d2bbca1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:00:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: e0e30ab4236f5e97fccea432f36f35a9 SHA-1: 4eb48f75491290346441ff47f535e3d54d821720 SHA-256: fa47b8389d2bbca1b7855eb3f00949f64b04e64d37a21a2e0e4d71a9a3b06995
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 0.9957

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=spotting+while+on+birth+control PDF link annotation
    • https://www.kcequipment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be778c62c15c8b35450de786318b85e2/rofosolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/77364954805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redeyeldn.com/userfiles/file/damat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9bc6e8e7c---doxaletovugevorota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.de/img/upload/file/zobusikujir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fddaa5ab40a---sovib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85926942676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aav4s5kbng2gr5q07unr2nmojr/11183583841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eded611b1e4---nivadisiwugoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2nrcfrrhuesm5774smppi139c/gipijixezujoroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nkmate.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210803_1B205458A1DA8444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.travelenvogue.com/userfiles/files/jobovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/26678836772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b153d7173ca---1545873015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardnugent.com/userfiles/files/xejumuwidedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/14044330670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/537b0e5846397b5f843c152cc4f209cc/38711961078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/toloje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609400e12fbb0---zitisegulimaseze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021081014061673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldcastlive.com/userfiles/file/63573396258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mihalex.by/files/files/90733334293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jitedabulotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netdepphunu.vn/images/userfiles/file/86236104855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/26543659750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/38034279784.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_off0000e1be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BE 18296 bytes
SHA-256: 9fe3aacbc39ff3be54feb3925b340044daaf7d724240d4fe3e6a2163a6e5fc7a
font_01_sfnt_off0001113a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1113A 10624 bytes
SHA-256: b9a9c6e83754932745c7d7ba900e0378086ab11c54e6e83ab131f6898023cd94
font_02_sfnt_off0001294d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1294D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1