Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa1979257ff00d14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:11:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b523bac8e16cf5a8b8414a0607344af1 SHA-1: 4200d5e4d6f17c7a64c331b5cb5c4b53cf2b0558 SHA-256: fa1979257ff00d14cfb445c942348375400fcb38221bb9e9b4c2ec4ae44fff5f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-heavy nature and embedded links pointing to compromised websites. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on WordPress installations, suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=transfer+file+pdf+ke+excel PDF link annotation
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57qhr3cvbr2ho4ia83h8vjg4s8/tuvodilulorow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/83636410513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607796e436ec0---30946330813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbe18d247fc---64781645244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8d43c1f0b---jetutejizetuwibupusebinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078078282fe6---xisigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/45367618040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d59a72f7f6f6eedb9651858da4b68016/55834002518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c98fadb956ce33f66fd9b9dfa2ec303e/26675961804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/jipozafanedoranero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bdfeb5bbd496e5257942f6216d45c2e/ritamomofexujobikivikaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eric-parnes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41602717750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9bce96660---pemaxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66a4a3bbf6f5e36da34876ff17551c3a/29861318147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eca19f1646---46164938445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7qgqrts1ened4es0fh231lmf3v/fevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e47cca218e---wokewogajavukofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servis-hradec.cz/files/file/77379728976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c0625d6567b77561a7eed056e6b2d1b/japafurofazexeligagapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanvienphianam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zuwexuwuvos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/kewaviduvanubelelugigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3be6a881ea135b7bca703992acf94312/30613022194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/60858288836.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_off0000b676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB676 13868 bytes
SHA-256: aa6a46a5ba435198883fcd6f05bbc4fef7de80c2f501720fad37a5653122cf81
font_01_sfnt_off0000d895.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD895 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AC 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 1da49ee80316d8b229c6252a2df555def46bab5a2c47ca6eb5c0c5f369e843bd

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