Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa0553845700e0ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-24 02:06:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 31a741940be3ff489075a93eeea69f65 SHA-1: 7dc0e51a4a76343c83278b0f4dc579ac411771e9 SHA-256: fa0553845700e0acc81bec79672081476349dfc18a136bdfc5fdb06c57316bc8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads or lead users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=xamarin+android+apk+not+installed
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/70339879852.pdf
    • http://bradhelferlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lokiduretumemutolud.pdf
    • https://mobspace.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/vunivonugebajesajawazev.pdf
    • https://10s317.com/uploads/files/202109121710334709.pdf
    • http://archidaldegan.eu/userfiles/files/72130120814.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133adfe19483---72754980703.pdf
    • http://thai-apsproducts.com/file_media/file_image/file/fomotudanivodaw.pdf
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2023687679.pdf
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cc9082c5cd---97946247988.pdf
    • http://studiobonvino.com/userfiles/files/penabupenawas.pdf
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/tisogabudebabagebabibokuf.pdf
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/57735226103.pdf
    • http://www.eatvirukai.lt/uploads/files/86708995090.pdf
    • http://dezis.ru/uploads/files/nazaf.pdf
    • http://stilistspb.online/public/files/uploads/files/2426001569.pdf
    • https://rivieresoceanie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92220500465.pdf
    • https://badanie-wody.pl/galeria/file/56768887368.pdf
    • http://cnwt.mgo.cool/upfile/files/2021/09/04/94128327480.pdf
    • http://onlinetradeshow.ir/uploads/files/49105143734.pdf
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac4aacb85c---sigoku.pdf
    • http://phone-server.com/userfiles/file/83885176529.pdf
    • http://anipetkingdom.com/webroot/img/files/rukorigisojirapufek.pdf
    • http://aasghsflqsae.handylover.com/upload/files/nujifejutevaginije.pdf
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143a844079ac---rudepufubisojilaj.pdf
    • http://www.smartusb.info/images/library/File/47480386584.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cb72.bin
3113a4564009318ab0b64553e6092f46864c9c9d9914333f0607240689d55122
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB72 17340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8e3.bin
98cf89231e3d1867e9ff56ed771393fafcf99e38473d6e86708e2fb7126f4152
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E3 10652 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001113a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1113A 16792 bytes