Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa08f4e3854f1f60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:48:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cba917a9a113f89af54f6def7835d98c SHA-1: 4fb70ac1e3d10dfd1e4e33a849095d02ab271782 SHA-256: fa08f4e3854f1f609314010e3335f7ad7fee2a7c45734c83cea82466d0a8a9cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further supporting its role as a container for malicious links rather than legitimate content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fancy+cursive+font+generator+copy+and+paste PDF link annotation
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/62890405050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/86412706670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbinteriery.cz/userfiles/file/54954463604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afba0914753e327aab9aaf3525f0847a/xutuledumolumarirusanosek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kssi.ir/public/userfiles/file/31638212256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protectakoteasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47438873536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383d8173c01---tiferevipax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/41427097098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0916773001630964884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/pexuxawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d87803494d73fc3946b9d50f687259d3/74258993589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/topoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--k1akb4c.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/bubupudisudofaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_5316E60D29D84988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca6d9dede3---41009386478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jechrina.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/639503411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arc-en-cielproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suwodevafovavasojorevurim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f39dcb0af6---35496620582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekobonner.de/userfiles/file/fuxisipiwosaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/namur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69705657730.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_off0000c3c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3C4 21752 bytes
SHA-256: 59069c48431d933730c42f300e136762027c1fb1ca57b6f77bdf5e8b308936f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001148b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1148B 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 55456b9953f2ebb6fad8bf363a747fba7ed1e82521a51fba5a1025f1387f1b43