Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa0e3049b083c2fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:35:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e863d17238b138818c915e6ed1237fd9 SHA-1: e71c068b4763fea75811c6a6967189b9c5680f5a SHA-256: fa0e3049b083c2fd3345fd5433dbfa0e19eafa2426b30f47bcd5f90659250a18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL targets are indicative of a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097e1a13380a---nosopuxaza.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6374228140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/73729183587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354e7290205---77172091557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theaterbuehne-schwandorf.de/userfiles/file/wijemizavorizefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunaapartman.hu/images/user/file/9266989653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://covinahigh1980.com/clients/1/14/147ee80f0cf2e08ca1b5067d21485a43/File/20195574549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/rares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40b30b634807fbff3411bf02337fb403/94787757826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50e3065adc055383ecdc95a12e7eb2c5/43976719809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/gozoxorerogegulonawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/21459642502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2lj667st2cvfsauf5532na7lb0/47361494010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c3e1e3393---gewubuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/vegupubusaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1a2cf12fb9---jijiwilupikowaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mea-travel.pl/userfiles/file/13527689844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f3074356d---97019694722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgbenh4utsi24skdevgtpqimui/34418711696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfeerweter.nl/userfiles/files/gidawafogefotejedunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/005a0bc6d9666fb10cf2ca925a44b769/71560059509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/52241904530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610955f83c82c---milamomasetitazolofobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99e30d52d4353cf764af2d13813e6a48/61596135514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=itu+recurrente+y+recidivante+pdfPDF 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_off0000fac4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAC4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000112d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112D6 19460 bytes
SHA-256: 3aa0bff7ac97dc7511540a2a625067de5a96323fd88932c806fd282227da3b49
font_02_sfnt_off00014529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14529 10512 bytes
SHA-256: d769735c78e47d03fdee539255c6f5e08214547df2b576490f67a1905dabd0e4