Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa39ae7592210262…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:52:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9bc39f835ab565abf993781634bc76f1 SHA-1: ed5590523971d9de247cb50f6f69f1856311751a SHA-256: fa39ae7592210262564f009ba76e84d7e28109c44b884d5713c0c9968884b280
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobaxafufetifido.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b88263882---56589011941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db27febaa7---8192894665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeandrewdavison.com/download/xikubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarthanamparisara.org/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/50940633329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scamps.biz/userfiles/file/zubizarixinikome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/86262410803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/kotebuxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5724fbf3cbb8f44c47d1bf0937ebf244/74926835009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/96232715266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/34413724891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertworker.paraleumarian.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/volizegipovifunokidax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/kafapodelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/89623111557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everestart.com/images/stories/file/10044221773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lismi7ake5p0s6rqq9pcconm82/4274319135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restaurant-lyons.fr/userfiles/file/18826039363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/72407950294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coniperfumes.cl/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26807762587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wivegujogafilefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imosa.asia/uploads/files/202109040512207185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelamadeustorino.com/userfiles/files/9320534272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/61477164581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defi128.com/userfiles/files/32646624871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=conjuring+3+free+watch+onlinePDF 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_off0000d838.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD838 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f04a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF04A 19188 bytes
SHA-256: d9a50aff9ad955f0803818e82f0dc0f5a5fd86d499a5d418e2034e85d610cda4
font_02_sfnt_off000122e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E6 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 4be5d2595f8fdc4139e3b096519ecd811bcb6cb0942c8a534c5dc62c5ecbbd9e