Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa4f253b017d7040…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-07-30 09:47:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 029b4abf4f9d7cb2b0dc5308bc9c8220 SHA-1: 90daff902057b85ee47d826fea718b972edfcb0f SHA-256: fa4f253b017d70402d36b0e4adde028a3c3fd98c487795e10dca4b396f065809
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to algorithmically generated URLs and compromised CMS upload storage. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and the ML classifier's high confidence score suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the ClamAV detection point towards a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reading+comprehension+short+stories+with+questions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/fikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaautorepair.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/83733971004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pc4v31f249olv62jae195r6shj/76130912110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/dimatufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715893f2590---saxerumogafokon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagepoorter.be/files/files/fuwapitaxiwelowawetubir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/47597971679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.org/contents//files/zewilazolex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1019fc5cec---47395400863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/12359186352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockoncharters.net/home/rock/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mebowajofedejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55d701bb58c58128e1ee79f769e9f4e6/judirirabumugasukafonixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aannemingsbedrijfbarthulsbosch.nl/userfiles/file/moredurowitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piotrkowska77.pl/zdjeciafile/64701373570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/25260172976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b7477b880---187964622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86255257285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomorecpapmachine.com/userfiles/files/50677351577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102be166aaa1---29394089611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemaymemorialgolftournament.com/clients/d/d2/d245e0393a5bbb16d67b82808c007790/File/bifef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drvishweshwari.in/userfiles/file/54144195452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/42817294023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jessie.vn/images/ckeditor/files/35482330349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propactionvehiclesuk.tv/userfiles/files/1120490867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/705eba0f6add930408ccc5032840081d/dobozuwijifaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c43c82ac878---javejowelitidebugemimudaj.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_off000107d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011fed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FED 11396 bytes
SHA-256: 2b16b6bc1cd6bc7f400756be1af2c3fa9a6131cdf6d3d5548b721e1ec34e6066
font_02_sfnt_off00013a1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A1E 16800 bytes
SHA-256: f102f93b3aec4fcea4513ad6acfd612a056c235dbc991ba969668babd5949f1f