Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa2a8bc6433a1c3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:58:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a5283fe052cc55a53b054b7cd3aff7eb SHA-1: 6333040c3cef093e436267c2f95deea18ca2450e SHA-256: fa2a8bc6433a1c3f9aa765afb897f586f6929df239b46422079a7674b54ee0bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt to track user engagement with potentially malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wireless+11n+usb+adapter+software PDF link annotation
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/farije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngaa.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kegunadaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pushgroup.lv/userfiles/files/50452904584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedwines.com/cmsCart/upload/file/48769458630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxhsbl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210710_193637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/sexidawusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db97071d424---51080182352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariekevanvlierden.nl/survey/userfiles/files/61559852513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zsmnowakowski.pl/userfiles/file/69672468805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079803729ce0---kodagadoninakepiduwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c0386a921---firotipef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df3c64266bddbdf91b584d8858f6d3c5/folanadutebigipefapifibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/9280895445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/vowupotoriwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ep19mfg9o5sosoaca22e2qk2oh/zodaratijonibevudunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/favepomavixujefefovow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed48a0fcf0---komefixate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randalljroutson.com/clients/44711/File/33591223213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/81275590410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ad999df4a---gasaturenagivunanenutog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b1519182e---xaliwumum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/84215138185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f7de41ed913716906dd8a018cace209/bezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02cf45cf6e6dbcff6ef6155b36a87a48/sisibujiforodeteda.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_off0000d168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD168 10860 bytes
SHA-256: b7d62231f302770a292a767383f2c7ea5aa2868e4f6e8750c1c84205c413881a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA7E 17080 bytes
SHA-256: 1af1745f2a224c4cced069eeb0506e4d6f777f9dfd91fa122d017e11fc0a48ab
font_02_sfnt_off0001172b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1172B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1