Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fa694848ae690f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 22:49:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 15b878006f5c932d852784f8f124e7e4 SHA-1: 79abd2ab3f92d5540e0893f613ed99c032351b37 SHA-256: 8fa694848ae690f2390ef33e39e02a1aff684d6288e7633ebc2353f698cf20aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to these sites, which likely serve phishing content or further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+thousand+sixty+five PDF link annotation
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k11fkd2bm1ao8hd58gg7le3iv9/97915702298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/zabajazuvitepofilamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh4-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents//files/16211822019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/83948546663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e0ead6211---rotapudanudirewumeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/bafaxefekolegelub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seednseed.com/admin/fckfiles/file/9400747579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e29e078fe7---17256823875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/gikenimexujudozomuxavafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5c9fa13e493321532e8d089b50bc57e/30224263789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f47779c6fe6571e533fbf1e0b942873/50592637667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703fc3d0097---xomewep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thangmayedex.com/webroot/img/files/mulapeposaxabuvobetow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864c6c74f4c---domamisixumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/bojenitapufegegolupapenuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c9b526fd8067394ab3d74c03853e48d/84348472497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur60b7ma3om55qarpf5kavv473/7325395946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dd265bde5b2305b6bd2fe22a2f2663a/pomiporolosazusitutuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/66654889877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filtrydokoparek.pl/img/all/23324901651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/gamoxolilajenakoziwazutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607234f8b947d---71989054074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d528e74f08e89010b65beef67954c22f/4851996947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damuruxapagobujobowagemi.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC2A 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 2247e372b667858593bede5cd944452378ed7617468efadf1b39f87d1abc13bd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4CE 16152 bytes
SHA-256: a296b1387adcec6f3b2576628ea92b3d2a56d809f0e877613436961f86b2f7ca
font_02_sfnt_off00010a52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A52 17012 bytes
SHA-256: 3a0124ec1a283f26d74e71e0f8a8a6f4bf280e1b604e14b77d57fa20741d93d3
font_03_sfnt_off00013671.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13671 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1