Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa15d6c1e7b3a476…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 22:08:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4eaf394fcd260808c2eaeec9124b9489 SHA-1: 37eca7d6ba8418c22966de5aae056fed24192f74 SHA-256: fa15d6c1e7b3a4764790dc6d8d22a7283ac27480c4e22f4c899fc207479ed0d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely used for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=goiter+effects+on+the+body PDF link annotation
    • https://www.cittadelmiele.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f14f7bb11dc3372b0ec391e475c782a/9056195150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koovappadyscb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kusikikoluka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/80595439623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/53301973553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928dc57929a---befonuwazonutaxatujafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambres-hotes-aube-bleue.fr/userfiles/file/vixobopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/81631428333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/2650021157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9127fd7e6d33bbbaf7ad05bcc8a2ac7/fafired.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-video.ch/userfiles/files/17020240649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/zowuvuzoruwupej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/vemijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607950dd1df4e---30945709208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/vagazopakoguripavijex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odf4p1avr1bprhhgghdraj9sf2/vavonivobefinupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608666be44e28---80374698625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/72092378729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadon-dientu.net/images/files/10463342852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb4744374fc---serokobenizevobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/22375811585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avantagesapp.com/uploads/files/9069196545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3e57d1ad5---98599552339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2faf1ae5e7---24218148047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e49u6vn4j0queqaau6jkhh6h60/jigalalubulefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a836d342261f5aa18dbe4941f14f33cf/vajemawo.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_off0000ff65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF65 18016 bytes
SHA-256: 1fe0827f2ac973365287ecc10c122c18e39912d4b5ef8a97c31c114c254947a8
font_01_sfnt_off00012dd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DD5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000145ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145EC 10660 bytes
SHA-256: bb2d5c8abc2a5b55b61996b55145765fa9b66d5562d92901a1988515c1bddc25