Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa0fa252db4bfb01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-08-14 04:45:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 71797de698f922ce3b3f639ce3336960 SHA-1: 65584070ef8e212303a41b597d331bdb0e45d9c6 SHA-256: fa0fa252db4bfb01d27dc464a55f40a63f54979ea92f3f61dc58cf5ad3534eea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable binary data, providing no direct content clues, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to infer a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 http://auapp.ch/userfiles/files/kuwukovowepu.pdf
    • http://gzky.cn/dubeite/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210614_074711.pdf
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/37757457098.pdf
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51ulkgf51rknh756prllkq9k7o/92727024928.pdf
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735d1c52413---12716031096.pdf
    • https://lrsinc.co/userfiles/file/79375947135.pdf
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/84354410810.pdf
    • http://sualpturizm.com/userfiles/file/nasase.pdf
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac074ef2060---xebas.pdf
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/dogalixazabetifunesugokoz.pdf
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/kofefawuv.pdf
    • https://tonere.shop/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/juxidutibizi.pdf
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f6b8e9b60---xumenimuxilajovuluzo.pdf
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h9jitgjsv4puv2a6a549ck0a7s/xobugadi.pdf
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bq5v8a0e1raml0r2d14rlalkln/bezevaxewufezizuvegopapup.pdf
    • http://omak1968.com/clients/71178/File/duvixexedoguvisu.pdf
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/rakiridoxuboriza.pdf
    • http://www.emploi.nat.tn/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suludukizadiripemajep.pdf
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4tpa28kmu4p5ed9b2rqigmlf8/bodituwuzukiperipiwo.pdf
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fab12c9cf4---gujanufewipuraxefoda.pdf
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8c0ac638d4091a02fc4b3bb1cf7f94d/xixironixu.pdf
    • http://sipzip.com/userfiles/file/gatalezofofupal.pdf
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/pujobosadozoporateve.pdf
    • http://tunesistudio.eu/userfiles/files/miwupeworef.pdf
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/miwufazedelidokal.pdf
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/moxigigezujujosikon.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06ae76b23f50665270cc293c1634a154/80516000724.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=segnaletica+stradale+dwg+download
    • 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_off0000edf3.bin
a24b45b87e23d32e08d8a18598100b9a2f84b648bee34fdbde3fe0233b191889
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDF3 10708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001067f.bin
ed8ca1882135f40619b63d804df822b2c42e6e8c51c538ea683ddd43ce201bc7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1067F 16436 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001301c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1301C 16792 bytes