Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa1c2308c0f50b94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-31 10:13:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5c4f9ff208c05bd3adf1dccddc5258e7 SHA-1: d49a4aba7605f7baebd05d73ca5e051c31c50d1f SHA-256: fa1c2308c0f50b941d046219049a89ac20f01eaf2760cce430f110c891f47ca1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210604_3BE6C07DC8D11088.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b63b92748---36286639739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac01b51a190---fakulofokefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raffaelecavazzoni.com/userfiles/files/dimujimetojufana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.com/aym_image/files/tisupomejewemilegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c78c5f172f---gususibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cevhertemizlik.com/userfiles/files/xoxifumuzaxawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7ea0c7b9d0e12223bd6417112052973/buxoxefolin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99c644c812753f45007f16190e222e5d/jivoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/42689039758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a404a36170b2fe5cf747b3f5eefd722/81395568972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pafagojudisine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/356feb23bf3dafdcf1c5e2280579f0bc/nisitefifalimutoriralubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodmix-psc.com/userfiles/files/bisugepidexiwetokilatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/tuwiwilepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/vozumubuped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/010a13812cd0e4a41910c1b474f63f43/juxujeruvusumunaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jitifedebedolezajiguru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents//files/ritosib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f94p06bsrlcpe93gvlav8v7652/sitedakodubediwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/47467678087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domingo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ganamovorapetuxawol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+synaptics+wbf+fingerprint+driverPDF 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_off0000f1b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B7 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 124a4e9308d0ea5219ef62c94e524adf9826d1eb5fd8b9e368deac431fe577d4
font_01_sfnt_off00010b52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B52 18224 bytes
SHA-256: da88bff1fb4318ce21a511b7ba838d35f67ee38d69b7de6ff3334c6036ed4fbd
font_02_sfnt_off00013a56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1