Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa164ef8c1fdca04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 05:07:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 97721195afad41ae6c5229f6e3279e5c SHA-1: f067e88ec42fb693887dfad23da600d0afbc1398 SHA-256: fa164ef8c1fdca043f98f56a97d1d45c51e67848904774ffda79f7b61793afb2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malicious content delivery attempt. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, some pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an effort to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm to distribute traffic to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://namkhoabacninh.com/images/files/17575352120.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rotterdampools.com/contents/files/67486540978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longbienco.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94085986190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozelsk-adm.ru/files/uploads/files/vororepizodetugitabunik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xmzhj.com/UserFiles/file/tujunilajetogunogeximezad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemicalengineers.ie/images/65929475576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1dca88457b8fd6542855bf756db691d/18914288216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/69245711990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/48883155900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mauchlineware.com/html/chapelstreet/web/userfiles/files/powuvaburaluruzuwane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/22771655045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangnampte.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/82114447506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donovaly-ubytovanie-safran.sk/web/userfiles/file/kezilaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9eaf942ac25f03b0cceecdb2603a223/63276057451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariamontecchia.com/userfiles/files/jagubofosoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613291d5e6de2---nakigonetowidazula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/goliwivipiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfollowers.com/ci/userfiles/files/lizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madinagirls.com/easydo%20v2.00/files/uploads/pisigab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smm-mm.com/uploads/news_file/dikapiruxubofowupige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pessin-location.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wipel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjbfjt.com/upload/files/14548560003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoga-privates.com/yoga-privates/file/xipusatozebizusogotijibez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/julapawatutex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=back+to+the+future+2+full+movie+123PDF 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_off0000c1e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1E4 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 517c1faeaacceb03f0a07614acd1111700304e0614d97ad794f9d65c452f194b
font_01_sfnt_off0000db9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB9B 18040 bytes
SHA-256: 6873415e0a85c8cb31af96136489c5c7a5e728652883c83e8c2dbfc56a313f33
font_02_sfnt_off00010a39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1