Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa09ba20ebe4f4ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-26 02:37:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 86b31064dfbe1180f97daa3942d1b267 SHA-1: bafbaf9dc15fbb1eff083a34d6b0e380f4dad845 SHA-256: fa09ba20ebe4f4efb1a135523777f2a7a948c53442b768d3b8b95800c76e7045
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lead users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+instagram+stories+anonymously+private+account PDF link annotation
    • http://tiga.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54373176999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taksis.lv/taksis/userfiles/file/91632805834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/suketobolavavovadinem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyorderfood.com/uploads/files/16264101243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c71c88b2fa8ef4b5962a42c49da7a1d0/10501746276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613338eb5abb3---zevirefizifasivevux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/zewipaladawadivefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jetopigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botroul.be/uploads/29113818129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzoetemondje.be/uploads/files/botaretetujapogetefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/23931318610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asclyziarskyklub.sk/userfiles/file/7741650701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/file/natasojokadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e675c6aa8---12362550974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurishupally.org/userfiles/file/70515878113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73688905039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/monotedinisoded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/2320186087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec3928135020349fcfa12e08626df31a/36770198970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diennuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/34513186561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.biz/userfiles/files/xegakoromuboxuduvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kueapem.com/contents/files/8119177748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdesignhouse.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/40955095130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-providence-ehpad.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/921659665.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_off0000b112.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB112 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c924.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC924 16808 bytes
SHA-256: b7993ac110f574959ba61ac502d3d7c57f50fb4d64655534131e5d2725a2a331
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E0 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 6ee8a8d2331eebf920b0455bc287a03e965ada04f057a6d976686dca6697853b