Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa3d12de62557f74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-06-10 05:46:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9da328be4afc3e054d97588fd5523834 SHA-1: 358fb2a7932c54536a2d7f55817e9042ad27b3c9 SHA-256: fa3d12de62557f74b8e0b666b0617ecf5a267ab7a88f17319e70606471a3523b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or content-luring attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+speaking+topics+with+answers+pdf+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d73b253033878d6f9aaca783a86d561/zudumowezadidesare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n8ho0ib6gv9gqefialpuq70k3u/nimogedireperuvefikijoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkmdc.com/aversystem.com/userfiles/file/97551439774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kq4idgblkmpveuj1mtpcq005k0/wuvitanoxugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608579e0b8e42---55385690800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a8339295ad398aa15050e3b7dcfed88/41013642868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/gukubafinibawanikitibofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be79aa8138b---7451566299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/72318500918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1b60125c6---4885867596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fefiksgrtt5nqbgjlvqatg38u6/3642629562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kpuv72bjfbp667u5gm6qrlbtrj/40998776791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/35537122787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9014fad0f5bdd4f714dfea7bebb0043a/fetezuxidunumuxopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/88300060403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8ca0d5138---xegaboxegovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4B 5784 bytes
SHA-256: 7eb29f721135e3db902c46151dcdb62e6104e6c3854d9b433058bebb57e870b2
font_01_sfnt_off00010110.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10110 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 7fbba2ace3485f15e38a31d0cb89b98bb41f494aed1916353d44236aed2b6202