Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fab498e7433472fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:03:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: af72af51488d6b06afaf8d99ed07b655 SHA-1: 378ca91ebb0e578d1fc1c6827412168868eb064f SHA-256: fab498e7433472fc6f45ad317c527c36f5acf752cddc6d47edb3d8f4a48b966a
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 0.9974

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 http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb740c041c3---wufobapovezepebinaviwo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/9346587455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sneedfamilyct.com/clients/44919/File/foris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1afc60f40c1b727dec62472ec3f22426/jojebamevilijonizedelom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehsclassof64.com/clients/b/bf/bfa5c4411462ceee4a19e543862d902c/File/nazogirodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dc07c5cd8183ba9b1fc5b8e24da8bbc/2370931276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regionalhealthprogramsww.com/images/file/somowivatuzevabozodiriwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901c16270f6---fubebokufopesifefedumizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.net/userfiles/files/54644945536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ee1d77bfa1---35546433274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/konek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpxs168.com/filespath/files/20210825142212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandweeramsterdamamstellanden.nl/userfiles/file/9689634275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbarestate.com/survey/userfiles/files/38192962573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aad1c33f20b767d27db1ed3286fc9f45/15528788041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32629971698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanguardhungary.hu/userfiles/file/puvevepipitiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalshield-uae.com/userfiles/files/zilobodagavilofobexurubov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/xusikuxofika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/70221296237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solar-makernavi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vili-al.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/85132530263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qmgutvlmuh3t45qnnhj05an81/megozapekuvax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a697b4f24---6499956727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=paolini+inheritance+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_off0000e04a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE04A 18656 bytes
SHA-256: a75f669fbbdf69917921981680bfdc0a410a11593f38efc408b8256646422dcf
font_01_sfnt_off000110b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B5 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 4a9a44281b86a8a0184f34a548ea0cb77cf9a22f3c43a546cd0ccec082e93cbf
font_02_sfnt_off000128a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1