Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa1f6ff0b8881c6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-08-11 18:11:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6c5a3ddd34b690bec26f5519ada73ed9 SHA-1: 9dd5b4f081d33f556d56ac211a730549f55f35ca SHA-256: fa1f6ff0b8881c6e3e5e67373e4576feed319e45bc03d7aa185788241a6648d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely spearphishing attachment, designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1a45ae4b9---45167329338.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://krzeptowski.pl/file/75201760321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d3076139d---44668816741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/nazipelak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/daruvanaganoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/wafomirokojugaseve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/77688875571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents//files/zapolefupetox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/388f93d64771b90e5558719a48d7f6de/41069653928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenquangcomputer.com/upload/ck/files/sarinopalubuxonesanuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c819a536de---kagesaxuxarovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac5e3f1e6975d857030e945e2f1740fb/zagulowipusirura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ob1v7vgf0f30s7fidk7dnuvej5/balopipidawafozovub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c72b0141f8800824011119d4d1c4822/98653107769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/birigekivolateko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/555de298bb3788c3f8a71a4dd4754082/75792864796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/90071392129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9fc9b6519---rajawobexowozemebiwuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criollo-cocoa.com/userfiles/file/74635253167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f81f2725e67---63863118160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinka.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tebosalofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/894e88ad266716fe19243afb7dcf1116/39659785870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b555af9bf1b---neravedupepesume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5196a853945a549c273a9f61ccf6ac36/zovasizosuvaderasoret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=wallpaper+hd+4k+backgrounds+apkPDF 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_off0000ec03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC03 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 1c85f4cf2b26c642015235864bf706334fc77f20a5a317068ab468b3a77a1f7d
font_01_sfnt_off00010527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10527 16804 bytes
SHA-256: 1bfca5bdc23530cb889061a9813ca2ce0d19ac182bb19657c136ee53c6ccd1af
font_02_sfnt_off000130e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1