Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa34c7ebf8274492…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-15 23:43:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fd3cd3a4339001113b7875e2570a5c04 SHA-1: fc20e9789419a70865885bd2b60bb02eacaa0ed6 SHA-256: fa34c7ebf82744924805a2c963cb664c2079c730b7f7b5af552ac05eb3cc8d5d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to WordPress sites utilizing the 'super-forms' plugin, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0c8ba77ae0b9108c650855bb9f6f9aa/78996958650.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86367afe9a322f44abe36db6c7e8eb4c/65202046432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lh59qajcogu9n7ibdn48uh15l0/30277858309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/einl2pg7aesvfhgovseei6in9j/sepodimozur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff77a86b0b---saxuvapogenitofenunesop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5218bf663365f3902429cc5b95f0811c/juvomibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0275e412744f91be20f3dcb2bb37f37/18686661191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fa2ca53d8---kulamapejifelepoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/11100902168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/lajunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/julozuwosizidegedosumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skipjackpoke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47430375742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehc1on9lhi6kvgs1itv52b6rs7/82678921879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f820a249b---tojagugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/74304487613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/31932251315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869143156bc---97127648527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/7571304048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68b9850964---4054036307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb391a122d---lowogorozizopexubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff038c93ea---76742239988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b87ce50aae0faaf8686667c62d9de78/33400585164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=house+of+games+book+pdfPDF 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_off000104cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104CC 17256 bytes
SHA-256: f50379f2adba0c276539729eae8eeca7fbe8e4ea0c9bf790ded900f4fecd6d2e
font_01_sfnt_off000131b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B4 10724 bytes
SHA-256: e98e2b6e57498f56b71f6fcc13b8343e0a89a5d252c18df1b1342830d12be9c6
font_02_sfnt_off000149f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1