Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa07b4ba6f352f73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:22:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 876e46d3991e77dd3369c0a9d120f25e SHA-1: 3e1b9616f51d450be9a1f102ea98da74fb7d33e0 SHA-256: fa07b4ba6f352f733e548cf4d38e4b727fb980033c104018db733e8ac50f8609
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical alert for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+science+in+everyday+life+class+3+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/livopajetifemuselonejori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmpallet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15044653097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/75412994330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debschoen.com/userfiles/file/pimirutanivowupafedubiguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coral-travel66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78181125989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074966b1ca43---27840938356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotherelectric.com/files/87586679577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c7020c8ee---9385377067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/fedimitowiratu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609848578b90f---23510766555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dashoernerboot.de/userfiles/fulimevazipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c60d1c18eecd32ae471e8cfdca0423dd/36598265456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vevesaxowoveditinibeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/79429410907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/44410778354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/xuniwaradiwisokarawozano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/6544762583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cda68a63a8---38511853689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2e05cbcee---34723109700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giftboxvietthuy.com/upload/ck/files/91287243726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phatgiaolongan.com/upload/ckupload/files/romidujosure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anneadamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zorovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/77769740145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakedua.com/contents//files/vomejenexevepidoxezodun.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB42 18500 bytes
SHA-256: 61b2cb5b467a76b967a8a16fc439499290fac870c27c6b55a782813984e65f9f
font_01_sfnt_off00012b4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014363.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14363 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 92ae0c7317497810716464e33220fab324964423c63842831bf66894ca0f51a6