Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa8ab2ef2975420c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-08-05 23:16:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: c8a0213f191b775c4e33fa1f0b642ac1 SHA-1: ffb92a9ff74236505dd5064a7dc338a79679206f SHA-256: fa8ab2ef2975420cbb23cdd2590dab0e844e80bc6b7480e6df86a07fcc8a8b3f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a clipboard-command (paste-and-run) lure. 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 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3e3383907---36727741830.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/muxubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/82523922516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d0b1b393d---nexebivepexiven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnwealthy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wubura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210714_3657A47A108E809C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/58563702136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fl-forever.com/upfiles/editor/files/modikogamafutotokilub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippinnudon.com/uploads/files/10891133369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdc.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48566835649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/wapojalopiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/manozezavegaxosepikijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cb7b4262ce909c94fb755ea99547ac4/siletiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/17845748933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2caa75cc2b---45892741275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210623033619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18mdms75hfhggshq5detdlio27/6541462430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teckim.it/themes/userfiles//files/125781096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a349d44eabf---91880394325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dcbd3914a9a0acf84739c162edcf037/21249291496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e8c31caa6---pebuwelabopakesidebami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/klgh2cug1jncmlimp4iugbphr7/34836423215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/gakulekeverexazamevamosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=apkpure+for+android+tvPDF 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_off0000fe97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE97 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 708b6a0db16c06a611c8829aaa9f0e678768225f2d2f31b16df1fd03653db583
font_01_sfnt_off000116b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ec6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EC6 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 1bd141739250b221b9eb9a278e08a2c03b2e329f80824d2fd2d5a1ea41af1ed3