Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa416a3e2cba5198…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:56:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 92cec8bb7b70cd16195c860cfaed39ac SHA-1: aaa4672796b495d0b391794a24ee6b049fd67377 SHA-256: fa416a3e2cba5198878c443ce5343c9938ea4e6ec512ffa42d2705da626b71a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, directing users to download further malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically phishing and trojan delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious PDFs on compromised domains points to a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add701289b4---31133910159.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ourpreferred.com/userfiles/files/gumomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xofijudafiwekofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d6b8548106579be6a57646577c539f8/37434691139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasroglobal.com/userfiles/file/32080850129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/fenuruzujajerelomupunawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caa04acdb74---nalulakoxodeletokurudar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/fasabenesowidomoparujip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/89286786963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608339277ebc0---laboromivowitan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/26217376388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756021a3086---vikaxagaladavuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/84918133116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c98160e69b---totifeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/romopiselevadebikolavobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourcechipola.com/files/public/lovamilelivobodisedenuvuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dribblebar.pl/userfiles/file/seziwafeseginizajosomapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanriovermensucat.com/uploads/genel/files/renupinukosowanowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexinform.com/hirlevel/file/13256910305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131348fb3916---49602557213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70122022113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs-class1957.com/clients/35434/File/digivorusabux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf9e426e43---solulegafar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/tujidatozuvujuzume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=de+loused+in+the+comatorium+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_off0000d673.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD673 19364 bytes
SHA-256: 76165d0b54d1edb18c68c77ffb69803758b78d9057728eb38406f380afca2a50
font_01_sfnt_off00010a2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2F 11216 bytes
SHA-256: b2883f62b26ca092e8b5c7d31a65dd38384f779d22287bb2691d1f3a11b5adf9
font_02_sfnt_off00012400.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12400 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1