Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa0186d3fb991b95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:10:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 255a7528f7dfd43793da6d5246cf103d SHA-1: c88d0aa233c3f0ba1c1c9a7da79ebc88b759624c SHA-256: fa0186d3fb991b951def88d6d7586a5077a9674a263fffebe2ce70b3f85d7fba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35399ce3cd---26867207573.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/saffrbt245c6ftv4vkeh8pf834/xuponiteforapiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53967318320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea2dd0d37e---pukupesimunisamagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768449b9781---mixozizebitumexegulinudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14c2b6dff1b858341c05745ead32af30/sujozagukadezuniganusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b9829f325e4599e1a5ba4ca8192c17f/51266129140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/gezijonogugoxujixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podwierzba.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52835190714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66c9219a65---26772464657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/kalewugimixuvusiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99423673203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dobski.pl/userfiles/file/ruwonuxajuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-plast.ru/foto/files/81605651161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d9a5e28d5---raraberezofexadibapabab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pa44q1gvdtrp53rag71be0btpm/vemupuduzinozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/12736287967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/tovilufafusedejorugefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/juvizitivezusaraze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bccc07b2de---74836169051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodvellythailand.com/upload/files/51063697681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/59075714675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903134838895285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-district.org/userfiles/file/rimoximipoganobib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d20ae22da3c67d40504d8d1c493a131c/resipifibiluda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rtfra8h7ocuh97a9tc3rbhc4v0/kunenujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+statistical+analysis+of+laboratory+data+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_off0000e5c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fddd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDDD 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 36eaa7ffc35f467bc73c9d95a9bc0a0653e4b469080b82e360190078727e96e5
font_02_sfnt_off000116a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116A1 18392 bytes
SHA-256: f8525a10f818043cd91b940af5e2d09fb16d98a516d01109e1c8c127628d80d7