Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa350978562b1abe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

170.4 KB Created: 2021-07-08 06:26:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e3efbac8de516bd561268376d4176d26 SHA-1: 3a454a905bf241876b01253f9be60b5bd8421f51 SHA-256: fa350978562b1abe25568adbf87007c09ca7dd037cc8278706cc976d61656682
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9891

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6834eab7380f5dd363f9c5fed08ac796/28133547819.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d4ed65b3904681d4a5963a3b69d8d2e/lutowivuxoguputales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/78709772010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e2b7c49b24---tenimexudewurunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ad173186049dc5324ad52246924311f/wovijume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chekeeh.ir/basefile/chekeehir/files/ditupuzilikek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b78d87940fc---gomuzojukowux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/76892074063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/sanokufukavisemoxitoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210522171254793999h1230c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rahway1968.com/clients/5/53/53e48f2724afc57738bbbcfbfdbdad27/File/59084290143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/25309231193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kh7fmmqoi22stjdck44kha9qui/35876559023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa543f5403f---69429446395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vote4dannybarry.com/clients/2/2f/2f5d4f67c16906f9b09010289963de11/File/19571310834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/19840549289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea30b7f09d---4442508386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8e37237fede876b85f3c24e3e136ad7/dugiwesugasobosuzijekuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d66ef03c50f---8859860881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/zifufilimuwukosodaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/56194672308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875a2925e5b---zewobitadujuvefazenufosad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents//files/6061478554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e3c202e51---gubojukafaxofufuxorobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=noise+pollution+project+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_off000237ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x237EA 19996 bytes
SHA-256: 01a873817174dcf87b02118080699402a650b54fa35f83bbd1566d0a5ab25324
font_01_sfnt_off00026bd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26BD0 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 5a9dd90165601e77309e4360b3c7505f6e5282b967f57311c054cec4104c03f2
font_02_sfnt_off0002844f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2844F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1