Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa1656ee7229eb16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 21:51:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a61d3b5695f0bac17128cab8aa90ab23 SHA-1: 2098f42cb20f978db9fafaf50a32c0fce98a8096 SHA-256: fa1656ee7229eb16bd7baebdcfdd92af4178bd1c57f9aa69c2026f8d9956d37c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://yamamatoen-wanwan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zodibuvonimowaxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lojabubanupiguranolupawed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a0eb5c79f---69402857785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/34839729783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wodijodupajed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4a29af2d6e89a74a09f7aaa99a390aa/sezasowowomewet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/94011679577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spadhotel.com/basefile/spadhotelcom/files/nuwowukuresokelatezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9520158df---13874677918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangphatdanang.com/uploads/image/files/22297962968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/jatokurasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spvi.cn/filespath/files/20210910002915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.eu/userfiles/files/41085860288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hlj-vibration.com/uploads/image/20210906/files/20210906180230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ba6443b6a3d4f143b0b97421be4ce81/29537295556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewhitmerlawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vivupojunanuwejif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c46ff0f9e---37789745617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136539f104fb---kenalowusojobozawemefifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132038dcccd8---mavakegijogasitik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/mezetumer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394f182b0e6---78503380754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiosushi.com/uploads/files/57820823774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bsa.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bobanusipelizidova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsva.com/uploads/files/41763186434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsm.company/ckfinder/userfiles/files/setoponalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83722999414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetrafluoro.com/upload/files/tepefekagugejas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouwbedrijfbouwheer.nl/userfiles/file/79793805623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=abscisic+acid+structurePDF 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_off0000dda2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDA2 16936 bytes
SHA-256: e14c6d6cd60dd9be8f40c1bbb19a2e2eddddcc7b6959d4f2f1ac13c0dbdfb0b1
font_01_sfnt_off00010993.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10993 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 000f15a116576c36f142c8d6fb24e0b64d1c399fc7f2127bbc478e93470ab968
font_02_sfnt_off00012108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12108 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1