Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa02f25cbe516632…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:48:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8ceadc3947af0a1b00fa72e24954cc88 SHA-1: 52b649c7ac6d49813bf5d5ecbe9cbbb34eb1cae6 SHA-256: fa02f25cbe516632083779414248a4ea10e9c0b00732201f9ac70376a1f7e7fe
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a deceptive user interaction pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3adn4f7ffnq99ostfoagp1d9c5/65464013242.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/ralun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a0ded85672---66431497761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phunhai.net/upload/files/xazukebexosun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkglobalcompliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33025583330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/009137564bed55ce8b1996ec89937833/tugolaludonejogabiteja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maharajganjtimes.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/rabafakurokoganepelug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a09142526---zunolata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czytamzezrozumieniem.pl/userfiles/file/mewaluzap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetnl.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210819_66A01AE493358E5B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebb12ac9bd80783e17ea071efef8a460/34592731101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alley.52886.tw/uploads/files/34184712575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fi0mvvujp76d2b3kvghk8s1t25/71380654016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7o731rp37sar4khpljtojsfha9/xipapagexiwufatenuvovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/difopiduwizisalus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/898e8761b21a636fd95c29c7c9b02824/vilonovetijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boyanbolyarski.com/userfiles/file/natatevidajalepesugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wct.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/depezomemixafexisub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eclickapps.in/userfiles/files/jipuzowusuvogolosowoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9220de36a68b85b759323c7c1a9857a7/39208337087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.addvanceo.info/userfiles/files/22369634693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssanesteban.cl/files/joluvisijedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tnlkliq8k5pqlbaarvtnt879lj/nejinofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f74cc9b1bc336421569dccb359a5bcd/80777436639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=social+constructivist+view+of+learningPDF 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_off00010d51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D51 10840 bytes
SHA-256: ea5ad77c9673826bcf6b3b0e3e02900ce1a5d63d39e1544d0989ca1e215981c3
font_01_sfnt_off00012689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12689 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013e9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E9B 17932 bytes
SHA-256: 7602113f3808e6b3951348220bc8248a132ab320572d5e89848eca9f1fb427ef