Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa2b954e4a7fa0f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:10:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: aef8f0675b19436f7743bfa2f0a7c301 SHA-1: a32bec238d8648c8cae6dc4855a691f817d2d1e5 SHA-256: fa2b954e4a7fa0f44618f678178b3ffabc128ceb8fe9a059bd57a05854945430
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL analysis and heuristic firings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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://czechdidgeridoo.com/admin/upload/file/62657352623.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6b534718a7---navifaxetikewukisadojele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/userfiles/file/44828331056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8e1851282441fe47db86a15c7d42f37/joxilipuwibukedaxabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/40718573408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//96658384745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e6472rqigvedl3008li02oral/sudozalafuvixizogozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021517142154475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shhs69reunions.com/clients/e/e9/e92da0bc0099326815942f81a5c18dfc/File/3961201763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983296876e0---tosexopoliti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iokh0tv7s6j4vteu4d07pconiq/6276396368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/14306704965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elearning-chemistry.ro/userfiles/file/9946658972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f3cf3c9eb18c33bfe0f6bb7b9f55e52/61224681476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755f1c503a9---nopimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/vaduwelufixalabizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa7fe875a3---24995230254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80113a1755c05589ae4d52d24e43ea47/61690758162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0fb21c71e9---burujelelabajesale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d31857473b---kenorubovekofilumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b8cb8fc14da---momojodetagepadumopezuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/69366421423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768db8bc430---52279546537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=federal+courts+have+the+legal+authority+overPDF 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_off00012815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12815 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014027.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14027 17720 bytes
SHA-256: 7a59073fdbf0cbf0b5c3936f8e6409f46f5f00b606279ba847a8b700b6d118e6
font_02_sfnt_off00016e98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E98 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 500ba9ec064f325d18995d667181e2caaa9805ead23fbf279680bf903ecbeb5d

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