Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa49e0f766671d45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-08-16 21:02:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 100b24c81862ef5825716f4c186ef188 SHA-1: cacdd2b838d5cf171462494e4c7e687fafdafdcb SHA-256: fa49e0f766671d4518d8ca231e924659e237e6a069ec9004271ea69be9d0d7c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, with numerous links pointing to PDF files. The presence of these links suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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 http://twxcd.com/img-aim/files/15224286200.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://freetds.net/userfiles/file/jodevabatetabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946c3b2f892---ratodevajiwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yachtandgulet.com/userfiles/file/49489588256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/950c542ce4cd2b61f1f82c6f90e0a61d/43376968389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/files/files/bodadogesarebufinavotin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b4d9bf1ba---87959466321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb009c9936---79088198587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/915362d90e1b301e7ab1268c1a77ecd2/22150715862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlangkhan.com/upload/userfiles/files/losevelaluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9639d2141---voxapijukagosonumoxixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filippodelvita.com/demo/userfiles/file/1079398422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d181cade220---waxobemizutetafefomono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/nekeriwutivojinajawigafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbcehyodmtf1czh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/telape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/pasowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdaniec.com/upload/files/80724883622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfa192311b6---gafuwokuririjekefaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/15709820082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/jazaxuvov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/28446739294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aantfcaehjbxzf1m.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/wofapogasaxiruvokonivasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/kujubaferavamof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hh1ere0q9e887ojt5gbhpvda4/mulujumixediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamasataccessories.com/userfiles/files/zivimukazarapifom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=limiting+reagent+problems+and+answers+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_off0000d165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD165 16624 bytes
SHA-256: ae41ec0e24eed8132bd6923e6da8e84bd5463c64f084e0c4ab2d08d28db7f18b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC9 11024 bytes
SHA-256: c86f377926ec37e135f953b00d95dd2de740cef6d7a33b3e91dbc307f4aa390d
font_02_sfnt_off000115fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1