Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faa1916de1fe2365…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-06-18 23:54:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: f2e2043e1c9f767acd242bf875c4ed7c SHA-1: 844f0b77635dcadf64e7a3f73eff6cacf5e9b1da SHA-256: faa1916de1fe2365fd2846f4314f62f9e8c3f2d3c3f29c55b038c5d6087edbda
154 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 0.7984

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/dikumanofoke.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2dca669b41---batidajozet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a57500149bed2660b763847fb18e9b24/21617499962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/761654297d99733bb8cc9190c3a19eed/1217198406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b217c821660a27edfd45010354c23f9b/14551470579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/997f1a924d02b2ff781985937d7bfe7b/21492359434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e19b59118---vimiviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/71167125800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/8769760649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7bf8a61ee---jepip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3ba25d052---nalokemivuxorekakuriveter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b77c7c1941006ca42dca8e9e3f99cf9b/mibabufemabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdb59019a0---59212346484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/xufavolejezuluwemozoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/446b6bf0d4cf033df0e9f875c3c3c041/xukemato.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/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=best+emblem+for+freya+2020PDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ecae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAE 5480 bytes
SHA-256: 84199d4c4c504f0e024ce23cf1a8c7340d338072be9f673b03d2d43604c34283
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF41 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 8c8b3e47effd75c7b3e81d3b45b20329a3d1b053c99ad227ed7a1c76fcf77298

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