Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa206befba062d58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-19 10:49:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7a4f13198522b7fe4f9e81977e5f6e9a SHA-1: 1fa5ddc2c030e8cc252aaa97ab10f4d9b5e93251 SHA-256: fa206befba062d587a8c549d107b4b490a3253437d639a141b2f0abfb1f55a57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites, each hosting another PDF. This pattern suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign where the initial PDF serves as a lure to further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ja3ue873ietuija7ksr2bogjd/11022189277.pdf
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c47c811a1f0---67992923474.pdf
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bf0e02796b6dbd36eaab686cd9ace49/burolozo.pdf
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6888ac80faad82a58cdcfc46f9296360/bilafu.pdf
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210713154950_1138987899.pdf
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e89ef36a9---56986452165.pdf
    • http://mavelikaradiocese.org/rapha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jinagulixex.pdf
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/96413609659.pdf
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/74996878407.pdf
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a51b51d508273d5ba7c60cbc0db89e3/vafefelafanatumafewe.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945df48fae2---32084851516.pdf
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28649a5acda0bc34844637adf7c601fd/62527309145.pdf
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/redisef.pdf
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077255460f4a---65293527197.pdf
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95fcf19d56---buxapunusaduziw.pdf
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607163317cf02---rinevilipelinozamezuzeto.pdf
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/dezilewoxoribup.pdf
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/507abc0a9e8399da00a6691f7766239a/pubupazarepegesewub.pdf
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37065b18c92df5b57cedc01095ce30d5/xalimuzi.pdf
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/535533331e980d3b9ab0277a9e5af8f9/xugaxusixabi.pdf
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3talhhd4onkan2ln2uger8tsls/jibur.pdf
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/77383891466.pdf
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c81908d013---tewak.pdf
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10a292c05afb6d2ac2ddf9ffdeafada8/92114415152.pdf
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/69580538380.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=discord+channel+requires+push+to+talk
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f110.bin
45b56df51689f2e210c68b9aefe630c4aa90cc27b28bbb420c8586cb7a117437
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF110 17364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011e5a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E5A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013671.bin
bfc2199f614aebf5025434d5a2a49479668cb49869d5c14db75424b9b92c54a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13671 10948 bytes