Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa280661affa6000…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:53:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7e3aaf8b54a5d6df33ceaa0a0ed69f59 SHA-1: a781a8a2575ccb04ee58811b64ddeee62eba51c4 SHA-256: fa280661affa60003b131b82e8967030b9a6efc24e9f004db5df5d6d5baa4baf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to other PDFs hosted on compromised websites. These linked PDFs are likely designed to lure users into phishing scams or to download further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the true malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609daf66c7509---tiburojakilaluzi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/201fdadc840e700a16d6230541d06e02/35512440746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kfpm9sv72mo1dtusvc7tnqet9p/9983152809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f07875881a---41468238811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/xoduzikasiwixetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sh278dd3a6r8999b4bh77e1ge7/duzezurovapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a166a72aae---57119166336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47db40895d280a55d1fdb0b7d044c9ab/24149195006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5877e3e103---48365659621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c32ka47b5aa80a8v9d3jnrsp66/fedosukoketimuzobununeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b71942ed56a---ximewururuxamimijufonater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aad5bf68385027dc3bb71be1db3d6e4a/75987422374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/84843199856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc7a2ca4f0---piximuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/42037191049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa52b71ba62---xazabifenudemujure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gistfamilyreunion.com/clients/8/8c/8cbf0a40baaab9dd4734ff2cdbb1e120/File/92861690405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/77094757134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinocorporatechallenge.com/clients/6216/File/zilija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b6eeb9266---96029918760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58c35b1ac2a1c635028d7b192bceae05/20050475070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/lejaxuzokavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb82d45830---xijemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/kokoxesupexuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ga44vrnvtemeip33lsum0t9s0/nuvebewezalaxelowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=the+short+happy+life+of+francis+macomber+textPDF 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_off00011620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11620 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012e37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E37 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 372f7576360e272b86bc0fda59066ea52d9babd9ecf1976a1c853a1470b8f963
font_02_sfnt_off000147a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147A4 17500 bytes
SHA-256: c79e75e824236f533cdc9130bf3d98d7433cd0873c644fc32ebfe82f37ff1466