Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa41a3dbf8144d58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.4 KB Created: 2021-08-06 23:53:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 26ee03c3c1832ba0037640b4f2edcc3f SHA-1: dc7e1ddc3d1ddef2060ef250ff4d6b96df71b5e1 SHA-256: fa41a3dbf8144d589c1ba8d8ed1689ef8b50c1d28304d9daf263bc09f79e9d08
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3+kn%2Fm2+to+psf PDF link annotation
    • https://paroles-vives.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dofejemabiduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.cn/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/25142048016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab086a1a8b4---60037134778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fscgn7re79n6f9mn3h8bugaa7/nawiteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98856339515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/govuzidekexekipejugekukil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/fojuzotazamejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af1aee3eb83ea40c01f4270f8715ceff/nobuwogerupaziwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817388f1970---nopirorezopufexusara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///14951385346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.it/file/fezumawawemoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazragame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vunedukoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/jopoxulizajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs75aa.org/clients/0/08/08eb77d093c5251d787cf05842b4a73c/File/53441839137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lso-msm.fr/userfiles/file/kolosepevikumexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2990592.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99087248991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607544b26ebb5---72765479781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/foboniwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qk911os4kkdd1n3dmch12h0nqm/75593868348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/69575642896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/def877ddd43be4145fe50d015a8b28c8/12275396010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6uqrs1fe0kl6qrq4tcp5qol8h/tepezusosipigemoxuzumola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971b217ed2d---81271411844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://info-jimukyoku.jp/lot/upload/files/zelozefig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jj9e6qlupamlilpumkbb21uu1/sukire.pdfIn 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://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_off00011ca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA4 17044 bytes
SHA-256: 5803c9e6d01701f2398289f91994f731e5bcf473079d793527102d1fd16c2d29
font_01_sfnt_off00014969.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14969 10308 bytes
SHA-256: e6d1f2b26e6c97faf6e68568fa16afae1896a36498d4c767c822a32e888c872c
font_02_sfnt_off000160c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1